>> so did donald j. trump just remake american politics yet again? the former president is now the president-elect after coloring in the blue wall, maga red. this is special live coverage, cnn morning in america, and we're still counting votes in places but the electoral college map is certain, donald j. trump will be the next president of the united states, and he has 276 electoral votes as of now, and it's almost certain to grow as we get closer to projecting michigan, arizona, nevada and the popular vote too is tilting toward donald trump and it's the first time since 2004 that a republican president-elect would come out ahead in the popular

vote nationwide. the map leaves no doubt. the country is saying that it trusts donald trump to lead and on a range of issues for the next four years. we have yet to see vice president get to today, but we expect to see her at some point and we'll find out if she has called the former president to succeed. -- concede, but the new trump era will begin with control of the senate and it's not known if the republicans will maintain their majority in the house of representatives. let's get over to phil mattingly at the magic wall and you've been manning iurs and hours and we have been trying to process what happened and how it happened. so much focus on the swing states, the key battleground states and you got the chance to dig in and see how and where. >> you allowed me to leave the wall for 20 minutes to take a break, and i pulled up the

digital magic wall. >> which i did at home and i recommend that you hop on your computer and check it out. >> here's the interesting thing. we spent a lot of time talking about the 7 battleground states and places where kamala harris underperformed and where trump over performed and there were a ton of counties that were very close in 2020 and i pulled them up and to give you a sense of what happened in terms of donald trump's strength with close narrow margins that he ended up coming out. now again, this is 3,000 plus counties in the united states of america. so the counties to me look small. but every county that you see red or blue, those were decided by 2 points or less in 2020. 3 in michigan, two in wisconsin, two in pennsylvania and a handful in georgia. but across the country, what is the consistent color of all of the counties with the exception

of two. red. and the closest counties in 2020 separated by 2 points or less, donald trump won the vast majority of them, they broke his way, and not only was he running up margins in his counties and cut into kamala harris' margins in her stronghold counties, he was also able to pull out the closest counties in 2020 and win them on a very very consistent basis. >> every one of these counties are the knife edge counties in 2020 and donald trump won them overnight except for two. >> over in new hampshire as well. and i think its indicative of the fact that it's not just a margin game. in the close battleground counties, the counties it decided by a few that had gone to obama, trump and to biden, he brought them back. two of the counties that president barack obama won, that joe biden won in 2026 and donald

trump brought back, eerie, joe biden was able to narrowly win this back in 2016. donald trump was able to win this kind of working class, blue collar and it has urban elements of it, but manufacturing. and trump was able to win it back and add to the margin of where he was beforehand. but most importantly though, and this is what i was digging into at the office, we talk constantly about where vice president harris underperformed joe biden in 2020 and let's talk about what trump overperformed in 2020. and these are wild. these are counties that trump was expected to win and it starts down here in york county. donald trump, 62%, kamala harris, 36.5%. this is a county that trump was expected to win and he won it by half a point to a point more than he did in 2020. and what about lancaster county. what was 2020 in but butching ue

margin a little bit. burkes county. 53-45% in 2020 and in 2024, he bumped it up by a half. scofield county. 69%, and i can keep doing this and i will, but every single one of these, this was 2020 in carbon county, 22-point lead for donald trump and bumping it up a little bit, and throughout the course of this dined of blue collar area that joe biden was able to chip away at donald trump's margins in 2016, trust wrested them back with a level of consistency that made it clear it was not just about philadelphia, not just about the color counties not exceeding their 2020 gains. it was about donald trump securing his strongholds and doing better than 2020. >> consistent gains across the board in the battlegrounds and thank you for that. and let's go over to phil and he

hit on something right there, the counties, the idea of the middle of the country. >> we talk so much about the trump supporters and the ard the democrats and what about the people in the middle. >> we can start out with pennsylvania independent voters in the great commonwealth in pennsylvania. donald trump with a 7 point margin and four years ago, donald trump lost independence in pennsylvania by a slash marge and not a group that flipped in the all-important battleground and we kept saying pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania, and it was won in the center by donald trump. and also t the disenchanted voters. those who did not vote in 2020, donald trump there, winning. and older voters who decided hey, i didn't vote last time around and i'm going to vote this time around, those disenchanted voters supported govern by high single digits, and time, how about we jump over to wisconsin, the state that put donald trump over the top in the

electoral college, i mate that made that call this morning, and it was hours ago, but did not like either donald trump or kamala harris. look at that margin, my goodness gracious, 67 minus 2 2, that's a 45-point margin and that was the key group. we always talked about the double hitters and talked about them in 2016 and they were not as big of an issue in 2016, but there was a group that didn't like kamala harris or donald trump. and this was a key group and it put donald trump over the top in the battleground state of wisconsin and gave him the precedence. >> that's 3-1. >> that's a very hefty margin and ultimately in a state that was decided by the tiniest of margins and it's all that donald trump needed. >> thank you very much, and let's go over to casey hunt. >> so the second election of donald trump, the ultimate symbol of his dominance in

american politics and of the republican party, just nine years after he descended that golden escalator in trump tower, just nine years after that, the grand old party is now unquestionably the party of trump. a congressman from michigan, he voted to impeach trump after the january 6th attack on the capitol and he recently endorsed kamala harris and it's good to have you with us this morning, and i would like to start with your reaction to the sweeping results of last night. >> well, it was a mandate. and as i reflect about the different states and talk to a lot of voters and hearing from many of my former colleagues, inflation was the overall message and the price of bread, the price of eggs and price of gasoline and people remember what they were and what they are today and i think that economy,

and something that harris could not differentiate herself from the biden campaign. she was asked about the differences of what she would do, and she really didn't have much of an answer to address those questions, and i think that was the deciding factor. look, we knew the race was going to be close in all of the states and i think you all must have a starbucks in the basement of your building watching cnn last night. but we knew from the start that for trump to win, or for harris to win, she had to win pennsylvania, georgia or north carolina. as it turned out, she had to win a little bit more than that, but it was pretty close. fill in a number of states but it's over and a mandate is there, and now we have to support this president. we have to say its time we deal with these issues, from certainly the border to inflation to the economy and obviously the world is watching and somehow we have to come together as a country.

>> sir, how do you explain the vote to impeach trump in the wake of january 6th, and there was a period of time where it seemed as though the former president, soon to be president against, was going to be functionally exiled from the scene? whooped and why did voters look at what happened that day and say we want him to be president again anyway? >> well well, i think it has been four years, and you look to the future and turn the page and you look to the future and you don't think about the task and the economy is number one. it was innation and it was the border and it was a number of things that were really at the top of the list. january 6th, when you look at the whole list of issues, was near the bottom certainly four years later. and the voters made that

decision and we need to be comfortable with it and move forward. >> sir, we have a statement this morning from liz cheney, who urged americans to accept the results, but then focused on institutions and talked about the guardrails holding and the responsibilities of various people inside of those institutions. considering how trump ran his campaign and what he said during his campaign, are you concerned about our institutions and the guardrails they may put around another trump presidency and whether or not those will hold? >> well, we have a pretty much decided government. the senate looks like 52 or 53, and michigan is one of those races that's too close to call at this point. but to get things done in the senate, you have to have 60 votes. the house, i think it may stay republican but it's going to be very narrow and we're going to

have to work together. for trump's mandate to move forward, yes, he's going to get his cabinet to move forward. but at the end of the day, that's where the real call is going to come, in terms of being actually to deliver on the many thing that he called for. so we have give and take a little bit. there's going to be an election and tears away, glad this one is over, but often, losing the seat on the house and the senate, he doesn't want that to happen in year 7 and 8 of his overall presidency. >> you have been out in your

home state of michigan, talking to your neighbors to voters, the division on display in this election is really remarkable. if you look at our exit polling data, the number of people who proved that both of these candidates, its down near 2%, and the campaign that was won was an extraordinarily divisive one with democrats warning that trump would govern as an authoritarian, and at one point, kamala harris using the word fascist. and republicans, trump leveling sexist attacks as well, is the country capable? i remember your time in congress, you were one of those who made friends across the aisle who put your names on things with democrats, that kind of work, as someone who covered congress for quite some time is really out of vogue, and what we're seeing in this election

doesn't seem to indicate that voters are necessarily going to reward the politicians who do it in washington. how do we solve that fundamental problem? >> well, primaries are thank you for sure, and i would say most of the people that i talk to are not happy with the choice that they made yesterday. they would prefer to have a different republican maybe or a different democrat to choose from, but that's the choice that they were left with. and i was very active in the no labels, with the unity ticket with a republican and a democrat running. but this is what it is. and we know that the issues, i was one that always worked across the aisle. i had the opportunity to work in the reagan white house for 4 and a half years, tremendously popular president, and he won 49 states when he ran for re-election because he worked with the democrats, times two,

and inflation, under carter. >> we may be losing our congressman. and sir, i want to say thank you to congressman upton for spending time with us this morning, and our panel is back with us. as much as i, you know -- donald trump to his credit, talked about, he gave a relatively unifying speech as he accepted, claimed victory. but the reality is, the incentives in washington are -- they often run the opposite way. scott jennings, do you think this is -- what upton is talking about is at all possible? >> sure, we have trump in the white house and the republicans are going to control the senate.

and there are going to be a lot of people for a couple of years, just read the math. and read the mandate. the american people just gave to execute o. and it's plain stuff that crush me in my daily economic life. please clean up the border and make my community safe and get the world under control. that's the mandate and any of them should be able to look at that as a raw political manner, gosh, it must be in our best interest to do this. i liked him, he was an honorable congressman and did a good job. but in this case, the american people sent a clear message of what they want and who they want to do it, and my idea is that everybody needs to get onboard with it, to rebel against it like we saw on election night would be malpractice. >> the devil is in the details. if donald trump's version and mike johnson's version of what we saw in the week before the

election, doing things that don't crush people and costs, repealing the affordable care act. >> he's not going to do that. it's off the table. they might reframe healthcare and transparency, and they're not going to repeal the affordable healthcare act. >> it's easy to say there's a political mandate to do these broad-based things, but we know when you get down to the details what does that look like and how do you get enough votes to get that done? as casey said, the numbers run the other way on capitol hill and as someone who cares about this country, i'm hopeful that we'll for a period of bipartisan effective working together. and i think a lot of that depends on how donald trump chooses to move forward, and i have not seen a lot to suggest that he's going to move forward in the spirit of bipartisanship. but we'll see. >> frankly, if we look for the last time that he was elected

where we were waiting for this pivot that never came, that he was going to be more presidential and unifying, and it didn't ham. so when kate says the devil is in the details, absolutely the devil is in the details. how this happens and what impact it actually ends up having on people, even the people who voted for him and gave him that mandate, it may not turn out to be the same as they anticipate. >> really, the incentive is to govern. people are expecting real issues and they expect the republicans to govern center right leaning and i think that democrats went way too far to the left on cultural and economic and immigration, and people say we're not a leftist country, we're a center right country, and we want people with central ideas to govern. and figure out how to address costs and the economy, and figure out how to address immigration so that most men who don't have college degrees are not compete against illegal

immigrants for jobs that they didn't have to compete with 10, 15 years ago, and make sure on our sons and daughters don't have to go to foreign wars and lose a ton of money and lives. and if they can accomplish that, that will be good. >> today, donald trump head back to the white house, and cnn's special live coverage after this.

>> all right, this morning, leaders from around the world reacting to donald trump's win, and vla zelensky among them. and he is hopeful that he and trump can work to bring peace to ukraine. and i want to bring in the former ambassador to ukraine. you're a ukraine an sold or the front lines right now, and you've been fighting the russians for two years and how do you feel right now when you see the election results in the united states? >> i think that president zelensky is right. he needs the united states' support and he needs the support from the president and from the next president. he needs bipartisan support from the united states. in order to win against the

russians, and you're right, don, i keep track, it has been 986 days that the ukrainians have been fighting the russians, 986 days, and we have been there to support him. president zelensky is looking for that to continue and there's some reason to believe that that will continue. there have been indication that's that kind of support certainly from the biden administration in the next few months but also from the trump administration. >> if you're vladimir putin this morning and you've been invading ukraine in this latest round for 900 and some days, what are you be waking up to this morning? how does this impact your decision? >> so president putin probably hopes that he can get some support from the united states for the ukrainians. president putin has said that he doesn't think that ukraine can even exist so he can invade it and take it back. so president putin is trying to

expand russia. and the nato alliance and all of the indications that we have got that indicate that president trump will oppose that, that is president putin can hope for some kind of lessening of support for ukraine. but the united states has been very clear. the american people have gun very clear. president trump has indicated that he thinks that ukraine is in the right here. they're not the ones that started this war. putin started this war. >> very quickly again, the ukrainians, why should they believe that the level of u.s. support as it has been will continue like this? >> they don't know what the level of support is going to be. what they do know is that support so far has been key to their ability to hold off the russians and they know that their holding off the russians is in the u.s. interest. we have said that, they understand that, and it's in

nato's interest, it's in europe's interest, but it's in our interest, and they expect that the next president will do things that are in the u.s. interest. so they're looking for continued support to bring about a just and lasting peace. >> well, it may be in the u.s. interest. we'll see if donald trump believes it's in his' interest or in the u.s. interest under a trump presidency. ambassador, always a pleasure to speak to you and thank you very much. so a big question now that donald trump is heading back to the white house and will he get rid of the legal cases against him? that's a rhetorical question. not how many minutes, but how many seconds will it take to get rid of the legal cases against him? we have more cnn live coverage after this.

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>> welcome back, this election not only returns donald trump to the white house but will obviously deliver him from his various legal challenges. 34 felony counts, one conviction, two cases pending,

two impeachments, 6 bankruptcies, four more years. donald trump has already vowed to get special counsel jack smith removed, which would effectively end the federal elections case against him. and this morning, lindsay graham quoting this, to jack smith and your team, it's time to look for a new chapter in your careers as the charges against president trump hit a wall. the supreme court substantially rejected what you were trying to do and the american people are tired of law fair, bring these caseto an end and the american people deserve a reached. ellie, good morning to you, and i don't know if you similarly have been up all night like the rest of us. you may have had a couple more hours of rest than the rest of us, but it seems clear what's going to happen to jack smith but ththe new york case is a ste case and where does that go from

here? >> we're going to hear a lot of constitutional arguments over the next few weeks and bottom line, all four cases are done effectively. the two federal cases, trump said that he's going to fire jack smith two minutes into his presidency he has the power to do it, and his ag will do do it. that will be a colossal injustice, he will have the power to throw those cases out as president, and the classified documents case, he has the power to throw them out and it's reflective on that. three weeks from yesterday, donald trump is scheduled to be sentenced here in manhattan on the hush money case, the conviction that he had. and it's an interesting dilemma for the judge. putting aside the fact that trump is the president-elect, i

think it's 50/50 if the judge sends him to prison on that case. the manual or the of those cases have been non-prison time but the prosecutors have been saying that this case is worse than normal. what does the judge do? do you sentence the president-elect to prison? he's not going to prison. even if we have the sentence in a few weeks and the judge sends him to prison, donald trump will get bale appeal and he will almost certainly be given out the opportunity to play out those, and he will be the sitting president by then, and i've heard people say these state prosecutions can continue while he's in office, and he can't. the society will not allow that, and the supremacy clause in the constitution will not allow that, and the georgia one was going to sink anyway, circling the drain and it's not going to happen while he's president.

>> it scott mcconnell struggled behind the scenes in the wake of january 6th to decide whether to convict donald trump in the second impeachment trial. and there were obviously more republican senators who elected to do that in that moment. and there would not have been enough most likely to convict him. but mcconnell went down to the floor and he said we have a criminal justice system for this, and now we don't. >> we have a political system as well that rides alongside of that. and for all of the legal analysis, i'm going to give you the political analysis. the american people took all of this in over the course of his campaign, whether it was januars or this ridiculous garbage prosecution in new york state, and they said we're going to send donald trump back to the white house. so i think that the legal issues are really interesting and i believe with what ellie said about these things probably not

having any future. but the political ride long here, we heard everything that there is to hear about these cases or weeks and months on end and the american people said you know what? that's not as important to me as getting this man back into office so he can implement his agenda. to me, i'm not a lawyer, just a political operative and to me that means something, and i think that we ought to reflect on how we covered it, and how it was prosecuted and how the american people reacted to it. >> does this create a political precedent where we're essentially saying the president of the united states is above the law, candidate for president is above the law? is this only going to -- does this only adhere to donald trump, who has a uniquely powerful pesh at and he has been able to command a very loyal political base for nearly a decade in this country or are we effectively creating a new

political pathway where we no longer feel like our elected officials have to be held to account? and i don't know the answer to that, and i don't know where the politics of this goes. i don't dispute scott's point that the american voters had the opportunity to review this and decided to send donald trump back to the white house, but you know, as an american citizens, it scares me that we're potentially moving to a place where this is the norm. >> can i ask the question too? i think that some voters may have looked at all of this legal stuff and a been confused by it, and b, said if this was all this bad why did they take so long to do it? maybe it's not as serious as i was led to believe and do you think that that's possible? and the question beyond the election, what on earth took the prosecutors so long. january 6th, it took the justice department over 2 and a half years to bring that indictment and there's some debate that is settled up, did

merrick garland take too long? >> this was a big mistake, by garland. and i hate to interrupt you but we have to think about the counter politics here, and it's a little rich to hear that argument from a republican when the argument throughout the course of the two years post january 6th was basically the justice department is political and they're gunning for trump. and in some ways -- i'm not necessarily arguing that garland didn't make a mistake, this will be debate for many many years, but there was a political imperative to demonstrate that the justice department was not being used as a political vehicle. and republicans were vociferously making the case in an effort to defend and protect donald trump that that's what was happening. so it's easy now to look back and say it's clear that it should have been moved more

quickly but there's a political imperative to demonstrate that the justice department -- >> they could have done that and moved more quickly and i think those two things are true, and i think to your point though, it does set a precedent. and it will be one that gets challenged. and what concerns me is who will be the person that challenges it? and what will be the circumstances? because they can legitimately say, and going back to that cover wait a second, donald trump did it, and why can't i? when it comes to the presidency, if you're running for senate, governor, where does it end that we have now said -- this is one of the things that trump has done culturally in terms of breaking all of the norms that we -- in 2016, every time something would happen, he would say for sure that's going to be a big problem for donald trump.

and it wasn't. so there were so many ways in which -- >> this is broken, the ultimate culmination, and you think it's going to take down donald trump and it's not going to. >> i do think that people expect for donald trump to have the ability to govern. we talked a lot about this being a mandate and i do not think that the american people who voted for the former president, now's president-electtious would like to see the next four years being legal battles again. if they made a mistake by point the merrick garland, it's too late to try to correct it. that ship has sailed. so at this point, you have to give the guy the opportunity to govern the country. >> going back to the new york prosecution, we talked about this. i mean it took the wind out of the sails of this entire legal argument, this at large political argument against trump because how absolutely ridiculous it was. and everybody knew it was ridiculous when it happened.

and even liberal legal experts said that it was ridiculous, but the fact that it became a centerpiece of the democratic campaign, it was always so crazy to me. we took something that everybody thought was ridiculous and said here's a reason. so i think for a lot of voters, wait a minute, the only thing they had was this made up paperwork case and to me that was the dumbest thing. >> i will say that when alvin bragg did that, there was a lot of tratter among my democratic sources that that was going to be a problem. and that was going to contribute -- >> right here, right in this seat. the date that indictment came down, sitting right here, and there were democratic political folks on the panel who said this is a problem because this is the weakest of the four cases and the biggest case and the case that the justice department passed on the fec, passed on.

and alvin bragg, a colleague and friend of mine, he took 2 and a half years, and the da's office took 2 and a half years to bring their case as well. and the fact that not only was the first case indicted but the only one with trump that will go to trial on a paperwork case from 2016 undermining it the seriousness of everything that follows. if you are making an argument, you have one weak argument and you have one weak one -- >> there's a lot of skepticism, especially when we saw democrats campaigning on the issue, and alvin bragg with an email to raise money on it. this is all politics, it's in new york, the place that absolutely would give donald trump the impossibility of a fair trial and why should we believe this when all of the other cases continue to flowup? >> we always appreciate your analysis. and it's a cliche for a reasonable. it's the economy, stupid.

the markets just opened and the dow is soaring on news of trump's victory. much more and cnn's live coverage, just ahead.

>> so this morning, donald trump is not just president-elect again. he just became $1 billion richer at least on paper, djt surging ahead of the opening bell in just moments ago, you can see that's not all that's up. the dow now up nearly 1300 points. all right, let's go over and talk to our friend, not looking at his 401k here, but looking at how and where the economy played in this at manipulation. >> i wish i was $1 billion richer, james car vil said it best. it's the economy, tuned. and how the people feel good the nation's economy. 67% of the voters said not good or poor, and it's awfully difficult to win when it's 67%. and how did 67% of voters vote in this election? we said look at this gap.

you can't win. donald trump, that's a 40-point margin among those who said that the economy was not good. and that was the vast majority of voters and i want to dig in deeper. what they said was the most important issue for them. 40% of the latino voters said the economy was the number-one issue, and how did they vote? we can say that they overwhelmingly by a 2-1 margin chose donald trump, and we know from the exit polls that latino voters, there was less support for kamala harris than any democratic nominee on record since we started conducting exit polls from the 70s and the economy will a lot to do with it. just the two numbers from the beginning, how people rated the economy and if you only knew that, you could have predicted the outcome of the election and it turns out that it's the

economy. >> let's go over to phil mattingly, and find out how the sentiments on the economy played the most. >> we've all heard that the democrats are very frustrating. the economic numbers, there's every reason for people to feel good about the economy, and you heard it over and over again. for months, i've been staring at pennsylvania, because despite the numbers, we pull up every county, where you see darker counties, that's where the cost of living, the wages and wage growth has not kept up with cost of living. the darker the county, the more difficult it has been for people that live in that county. when you look at last night, the counties that donald trump flipped, you'll be surprised to learn that right here and right here and right here in particular, but also right here, i'll show you -- this was the

county that in 2020 was a joe biden county. in 2024, donald trump flipped the county and flipped it by a sizeable margin. eerie, this was a county that was a joe biden county. back in 2020, he won it narrowly and in 2024, he flipped it back into trump's category. this was a county that was in 2020 a joe biden county. by a substantial margin, 6 points, and in 2024, it flipped to donald trump's column. and this is interesting based on what harry was just talking about. this is burkes and lehigh county, the highest hispanic vote and while the democrats were able to hang on. and burkes' county, 53%, part of the string of counties in the

blue collar state, outside, donald trump improved his margin in every single one of these economies. and real quick, one more time. it's wild to look at when you get a sense of if people in pennsylvania are frustrated about the economy, it turns out when you tack where their wages were versus where the cost of living was, and you look at where the darker counties r. much of which, not just improved on, flipped it entirely, you have to understand that not everyone was feeling it, in various parts around the country, and in particular what both camps extended on. both in the state where donald trump has by all accounts done better than either of the prior two elections and flipped some of the counties and joe biden got it back in 2020 or flip today entirely. >> such a good demonstration of how the economy mattered in the places that mattered most in this election, and let's look at

the right camera and bring in our panel of experts. and starting with matt egan, i have to say investors lost something this morning. >> wall street is starting this next trump era with a bang. you see the dow up more than 1200 points. it's about 3% on track for the best day percentage basis in two years, and i think part of what we're seeing is a relief rally. investors around the world are relieved that someone has emerged here as the clearcut winner. there were fears among the ceos and investors that this could drag on for weeks or longer and in a there could be social unrest but there's an element of this that it's relief that trump is the winner because there are elements of the trump agenda that are pro business. think about tax cuts and cutting red tape and that's why we see big bank stocks surging because trump will cut regulations and

crypto goes straight up because of the red tape element. but market veteran, mark hogan told me this morning that he thinks some of this enthusiasm could be short-lived because there are elements of the trump agenda that were not pro business, getting into fights with ceos, massive tariffs and deportations and a skyrocketing deficit. but enter now, they're paying attention to the negatives or betting that the campaign promises are not going to become a reality and right now, focusing on the positives. >> i'm not saying that the investors are not real people, and they are, but professor, i'm curious, if you are waking up today, anywhere in this country, gosh, what is going to change for me economically now that donald trump is going to go back to the white house? what should we be thinking? >> so the first thing that we would be thinking about is the agenda on tariffs, and that's

the number-one issue that has the most opportunity to affect the most widespread american audience. i say tariffs, the questions about deregulation and taxes and corporate taxes and scutting taxes for the wealthy effect a small population. but the tariffs, we have numbers on how that would effect every day americans, and i think that the common mist in the "wall street journal" statements 4,000 a year. so if i'm the average every day american i want to know what do she's tariffs look like, and how are they going to affect my bottom line and be worrying about that. so the real question is, will trump actually be able to push that through? or is that something that the republican party wants to hold him on and not allow him to do? >> prices are not going to go down. inflation may be stable at 2%, which is a good number for

inflation, but prices are not going to drop and frankly, people should not want prices to go down on things, and that's not good for the economy either. but will there come a point in the next 6 months where some of these economic trend that have been positive in the last few months begin to sink? and who gets credit? will it be donald trump? >> he will certainly take credit. he has taken care of all of the economic successes during the biden administration. but this is what we have to think about. we discuss the word mandate and we're going to hear a lot about trump's economic policies in the next 6-8 months. 75% of americans thought or at least told us that they faced either some kind of moderate or severe hardship because of inflation. 3/4 of americans. how does kamala harris go up against those winds? those are headwinds that are impossible to break through. but here's what is interesting.

going into the election last night, kamala harris had a better favorability rating than donald trump. so keep that in mind. donald trump's favorability rating is 44%, and kamala harris' favorability were 48%, and he still won. >> when is that going to change for me and will donald trump change it quickly? stand by all. the presidency and power. donald trump will return to the oval office with what he says is a mandate from the american people. much more, cnn special live coverage continues right after this.

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the republicans and the house may soon too, and what does that mean for the next several months and years? i'm john burman, and we have been at this awhile now, and you're still watching cnn special live coverage election day now in america. and the market map is still the map and it's fairly red all over. donald trump currently sitting at 276 electoral college votes and we'll likely see that grow over the next several hours, and there are still some states outstanding and pennsylvania and wisconsin going for the former president and michigan may soon follow suit. kamala harris couldn't replicate what joe biden did, losing battleground states that were won four years ago. we'll see her address the american people, what she does to concede. and what might be the end credits for her time on the public stage, at least for now. and we're hearing from donald

trump's running mate, j.d. vance, he quoted thank you to my beautiful wife for allowing me to do this, and donald j. trump for allowing me to serve our country at this level and finish the american people for their trust and i will not stop fighting for all of you. let's go to the magic wall. phil mattingly, what we saw overnight as this unfolds. >> let's take this back 36 hours ago, and you all were probably still working at that point. and there were several paths that we could walk through for donald trump to get to 27 0. several ballot ground states that could get him there. one path he didn't get to enough, all three of the blue wall states, north carolina, georgia, arizona and nevada. every single one of the seven battleground states going to donald trump, or at least right now leaning toward donald trump. and that underscores the scale of what happened last night and not just in battlegrounds.

walking people through it. in case you weren't paying close attention, when kentucky and not indiana started reporting, first in kentucky we started watching whether or not some of the suburban-like counties, hamilton in particular, indiana, and whether or not they had some sighs. georgia and north carolina, starting to get results, from blue wall states. trump taking the lead in north carolina. trump taking the lead just a few hours later at 10:05 p.m. in pennsylvania. and just to remind people, for a good chunk of the first hour in the blue wall states, all three were blue. and by 11 p.m., trump had take the lead in arizona and wisconsin had followed suit. we saw michigan go back and forth a couple of types, and

then 30 minutes later, trump took the lead in michigan. by 11: 40, the first of several battle ground states, the first that he was defending from 2020, north carolina, called for trump and then georgia, biden flipped in 2020 for the first time since 1992 for the democrats, called for trump. by 2:05 a.m., pennsylvania was called for trump. and we all knew that was the linchpin state for both candidates and their pathways and by 5:30 am, john burman projected that donald trump would win the presidency of the united states, and john, the reality of this is, when we have been looking through every slice of the different demographics and how each of the sectors work for the course of the night, it's not just the blue wall states, and the sunbelt states in the southeast, the scale of this across the country, the close counties that donald trump

dominated in 2020 and the swing counties, and the counties that donald trump was able to win back, also right there. there's a lot more coming out west, but i would defer to harriet. >> don't go far, we were going to come back to you in a second. but we want to go over to harriet and talk about the gender gap, the gender divide that would have been crucial to a kamala harris victory and ended up being crucial to a donald j. trump victory. >> oftentimes, we talk about the gender gap and we often imagine that it helps candidates. pennsylvania, kamala harris won it by 12 points, and that's only a smidgen better than what joe biden did four years ago. look at male voters.

donald trump did even better among male voters, winning by 16 points. the gender divide in pennsylvania worked for donald trump this time around. and often the gender divide, we often talk about female voters and that's working among the democrats. but look at latinos. donald trump won by latino men by 10 points. i was on my computer and i look back at every exit poll that i could find since 1972. i believe that this is the first time ever that a republican candidate for president won among latino men and that super charged donald trump among latinos overall and that's why he put forward the best with latino voters. >> that's why the people are using the word realign this morning. and now i'm going to go back to phil mattingly over here and walk us in a little bit closer.

>> i want to talk about suburban women in particular, but the suburban vote. there was a theory in the harris campaign, look, we may shed a few percentage points when it came to black voters and in our urban strongholds, we would make up for it, and go further in the suburban areas and push into the ex urban areas. what do i mean by that? this area was a massive vote driver for joe biden. those suburban counties. bucks county, closer for biden and winning it by 4 and a half points, and what happened last night? donald trump won it back. what about montgomery county? where joe biden back in 2020 blew out a huge margin winning by 6 points and donald trump narrowed that gap. over here to chester county. 56-42, back in 2020, joe biden a

point and a half off. you saw this throughout the battleground states. you can go over here to michigan as well. what stands out to me as well, oakland county, what happened in 2020, joe biden winning this county, it used to be republican dna in michigan. and last night, kamala harris winning it by fewer than 11 points, and we saw this throughout. the harris campaign coming in and saying we're going to run up huge margins, and driven by college educated women. and the trump theory had a clear case on the gender divide, particularly male voters and they got it right. it was not their side counting on oakland county to surpass what joe biden did in be 2020. >> phil mattingly at the wall. thank you. and republican congresswoman from florida, and congratulations, he has been a big adviser to donald trump.

and what do you think the one thing was, if you had to point to one thing that was the key to victory for donald trump last night, what would you say it was? >> well, i think that people were voting on actions and not words or rhetoric. kamala's campaign was about turning the page and the people overwhelmingly, on this administration, on the economy and border and policy, go back to the policy that's work for their lives. once in a generation tax reframe, border reframe, and the abraham accords that brought peace across the middle east. minority opportunity zones. justice reform, veterans reform. and all. things that president trump got done despite everything thrown at him. and at the end of the day, people voted on what affects their every day lives. not a bunch of rhetoric that the

media frankly likes to obsess on day in and day out, but what affects their families, what makes them feel safer, wealthier, and what makes them feel like they have a better opportunity for for children. and puts responsibility and power back into the hands of people and families, and away from unelected bureaucrats frankly in washington d.c. it is decisive and overwhelming. >> it absolutely was decisive. and we saw the traits of that almost everywhere in the country, not just in the battle ground states. and what do you think that the average voter will notice first? how will their lives change and be specific if you can? what policy will change their lives first? >> i can be specific, right now, the stock market is

exploding on the anticipation of president trump and his economic policies. just next year, all of the tax cuts and jobs acts were on the table and when harris is endorsing a capital gains tax that would fennellize a business owner trying to sell their business, and when you talk about unearned income, a bureaucrat evaluates your life when you are talking about every day faxes for a small business llc and then further, you have a massive trade deal between mexico and canada. the usmca, those terms are up next year. so all of those things are on the fable but for seniors, for fixed income, waking up this morning and watching the stock market hit all time highs, i think this is just day one of a new trump presidency and turning the page on the failed policies of the last four years. >> no dispute that the market is happy this morning.

and people have done well in the market in the last few years, and the investors that we're talking to say one reason. >> but their wages didn't keep track. when inflation is eating up what they're gaining in the market it was a net loss for them and they voted on that. >> just putting it into context, and not at all disagreeing were what you're saying and people are excited and the investors are excited about. one thing they're excited it, the election is over and it's not going into overtime and uncertainty, they hate. but i do want to ask you, foreign policy is a big concern of yours. if you're a front line soldier in ukraine who has been fighting the russian invasion for nearly three years now, how do you think you would feel? >> well, first just speaking as a solder and a veteran, there's at least some form of accountability today for the 13 gold star families from abbygate

and that disgraceful withdrawal, and that lit the middle east and ukraine on fire, but in ukraine, you know what that soldier should be thinking about? time we have an administration that's going to start enforcing the sanctions on russia, the ukrainians have been trying to hit the russian infrastructure, yet russia is selling more oil & gas through china and through india than it did before the war. the europeans are having to buy russian gas again because of the l and g ban in the united states and because biden decided to kill keystone xl. so there's a way to drive this war to an end and we can do it economically and we can do it diplomatically and let's end this war rather than perpetuating it in perpetuity. that ukrainian soldier is thinking that maybe i'll get out

of this trench sometime in their lives. >> what job would you take in a trump administration? >> i just got reelected to my district. and the worst thing in the world in washington, start measuring the curtains. trump lets to get -- i hope that he gets a little bit of rest. get his team in place and get the agenda going, and whether i can support is that agenda from the house or anywhere else, i believe his policies are good for the united states, good for our national security and good for maintaining america's leadership around the world. >> so you're saying there's a chance. >> you know what? any time the president of the united states calls and asks you to serve, i think anybody should take it seriously, but right now, i'm thankful to my constituents in northeast florida that gave me another chance to serve them. >> congressman mike walls, thank you. >> thank you, john.

>> elon musk is in the donald trump business, but what does donald trump's win mean for elon musk's businesses? live coverage, stay with us.

>> welcome back, this morning, democrats confronting the striking reality that they may find themselves with out any check on donald trump's power in his second term. in fact, of all of the reasons that donald trump won this election, we're talking about this now, the elon musk factor cannot be overstated. in pennsylvania, musk essentially took over trump's ground operation, and he held a daily million dollars give away for swing state voters. he donated at least $119 million to his america pack to help trump, and in case you missed it, on the eve of the vote, musk went on the most popular podcast in america and said this: >> if the dems win this election, it will legalize the

illegals to turn the swing states and everywhere will be like california. there will be no escape. >> that's insane. >> this is the final -- this is it, this is the last chance. >> has anybody -- >> go out and vote. vote like your life depends on it, and vote like your future depends on it, because it does. this is the last chance, man. >> today following trump's win, musk's net worth rose by, get this, is it billion dollars. billion with a b. and scott jennings, the elon musk effect. >> he's pretty freaking cool, i have to be honest with you. we have electric cars. >> do you think there might be a gender gap? i'm going to raise that question, continue. >> look, everything this guy gets into has been turning out. the cars, the rockets. >> catching the rockets --

>> it's really cool and he gets involved in politics and manages to be a huge part of an overwhelming victory and the democrats have been going nuts about his involvement in this all year long, and i guess that we have to litigate what kind of billionaire it's okay to have in politics, theirs seem to be fine and we have ours, but not only did he donate his money, but he donated his time and his expertise and all that came with it, and you cannot deny that he was a huge part of how donald trump won this election, and not the only part but certainly a large part. >> what's the -- the republican strategist working on the center as well. and did he have an impact, musk? what did you see in that? >> john fetterman said that he had a huge impact because a lot of young men thought he was tony stark, and that's important but also in pennsylvania, the america pack did great work, and

the republic legislative committee, they had a joint ground game effort and they may have nipped the pennsylvania house. they have been doing it for a year and a half and they did come late and had a lot of voter rejects. the democrats made fun of the bifurcated ground game. but we view this as an entrepreneurial ground game and musk and the republican legislative committee -- >> they also increased seats in the house. >> beat two democrats. >> that's a big thing. and a lot of young guys like elon musk, he's a futurist and the tesla truck, i love the cyber truck and i think it's incredible. >> if you can drive it off the lot. the problems that people have driving their brand-new cyber trucks off the lot? come on. >> looking at his success as a manager, the guy has a track record. and i think if you're a republican, you're happy to have him on our side, going to

pennsylvania and spending not only his money but his time and i think that he moved there for two months and his efforts. >> he spent a fortune on ads talking about trans people. which you know, of all of the issues that seem to really dig in for people, that one clearly was one of the things -- it was on voter's minds, even on election day. so yeah, you got -- >> transitions -- >> actually, it was the -- >> it's an 80/20 issue and it was a major factor with independents. >> kate bettingfield, there was a question about what his role might be in the trump administration, and him looking at government inefficiencies among other things. is that -- you know, as brad points out, there are a lot of people out there who think he's cool.

but what does that actually look like? >> well, bureaucracy and government jobs are very different than being in the private sector and republicans would say that's a feature and not a bug, but it would be trag to see how somebody as unconventional at elon musk would do in a government role. i don't -- look, i'm far from an expert on elon musk's managerial challenges, i should say, but look, i think that there's an open question of whether you want somebody who is an unabashed billionaire pouring money into your campaign to being given a plum job in the government and we'll see. >> let me introduce you to the way that joe biden appointed investors. >> that's not a democrat. [ talking at the same time ] >> unconventional thing. >> how every president -- come

on. >> use the word unconventional. that's what people just voted for. they want unconventional. they don't think that the government and the bureaucracy is working for them so they're asking for something unconventional. do i expect him to be working in a cubicle with a pocket protecter crunching numbers? no, but the people are asking for something unconventional and i encourage you to remember, i think that we're depend on this man to rescue our astronauts next year. >> hold on a second. cara has joined the conversation and wonderful to see you. as we're having this conversation, look, picture an adventure, and what the panel is discussing. i think my question as i was listening to kate, how long would elon musk last in a bureaucracy like the united states government? getting things done in the government is not at all like walking onto the floor of your tesla factory and ordering your

workers to do something different. what are you looking at? >> i'm looking at a lot of things. the instability and the decisions that he makes are sometimes haphazard and strange, often. i think one of the issues that you have is sure, you have an entrepreneur here, and what works in startups is very different than what works in federal government. elon musk has been successful in rocket tree, but he's allowed to blow up rockets because he can take those risks and the shareholders go along with him and it's a different thing when it comes to the federal government. you can't blow up rockets. people's lives depend on it. i know you think its funny and i don't think that it's funny at all. i think one of the issues around him is he's very innovative and different. but cutting 2/3 of the federal budget. and we all know that the federal budget doesn't work, but it's not meant to be like a business and shareholders and if you treat it that way, where we have

a different system where the least among us suffer and he has a history of doing that, lack of safety at certain of his facilities, and he has a history of firing people. and a history of not paying people. and he has a history of being haphazard and firing someone who talks back against him and for someone who is for free speech, he clamps down on it when he doesn't like it. so if you want that too, that's great and hah, hah, that if you want to do it that way. we need it in government but there's a difference in move fast and change things and move fast and break things, that's about destruction rather than creation. >> i want to ask you about x, the platform formally known as twitter and how a musk role in a trump administration would interact with his ownership in

that platform. >> i expect that he's going to try to merge truth social. it's a mean stock, trump's to truth social, which is a terrible business and x has always been. and preceding musk and it's worse than ever, but they could merge it and make a mean stock and that could be interesting and incredibly corrupt and he'll use it as a propaganda organ which is precisely why he bout it. people said he was losing money and it's clear it was not about money. this was a great investment by elon musk and donald j. trump, and that's how he sees t he spent hundreds of millions to make billions and he could be our world's first trillionaire. if you're comfortable with a single person who has interests all over the federal government, including $15 billion in contracts, deciding things, i know it has gone on in history but nothing like this. no one has owned such an organ and that's what it is, a

propaganda organ that he has created in this way many it's not the same as better and not close to the same. he has control over a number of important things, and we have to be very careful of a single person doing this. in history, that's always been the case. >> scott jennings, your name is invoked. >> he wasn't elected, he supports donald trump and now he's going to have influence because his side won. mark cuban would have had influence had his side won and i think, honestly i hear all of this carping about elon musk and it sounds like sour grapes from the side of the ball that shunned this guy and now they're paying for it. and she should not have shunned him and a lot of liberals did it, and they did it and now they're going to own it, and now he got on a team, ideas for the united states, and trump is going to listen and maybe they don't get implemented. you can't begrudge this man, his opportunity to participate in the political system in the way that he sees fit and you win and

that's the way it works in this country. >> that's not what they begrum. nobody begrudges his ability to speak. but what they begrudge is the flood of misinformation and all things that happen on that platform which is uncontrolled and it's not about free speech because he decides when and where to do it. in india, he clamps down, and other places he complains and it's at the behest of one person. if you're comfortable with one person with this much power and mark cuban's power, he has never been this much of a narcissist. and the two of them -- >> mark cuban is not a narcissist? >> not in the same way, and by the way, scott, i would be careful. we're both narcissists if we want to be fair. so in any case, that's besides the point as usual. one of the things that i think is important to keep in mind is the two of them may not be able to coexist in the same place.

elon is very pitch lent and so is trump. and i don't think that trump is going to like the attention that elon gets. and he and trump will clash at some point, much in the same way that he clashed with the biden administration. i absolutely agree with you, that the biden administration by not inviting him to that particular event. elon called and teched me a lot about that, he was very hurt by that, and it was a big mistake so much that i called biden people and said what are you doing? o gets credit for the cars and the space stuff. but what he doesn't get credit for, his heinous behavior and bringing people down, and that troubles me and you can separate it from the entrepreneurship if

you have half a brain. >> a very interesting point, the way that donald trump operates and the way these two enormous personalities may interact over time. appreciate it. >> badly in the end. let me tell you, that's any prediction. you heard it here first. >> here at cnn, former president george w. bush responding to trump's victory amp remaining silent in the campaign. he said, "i congratulate president trump on being 47th president of the united states, and j.d. vance and their families, and i congratulate president biden and vice president harris for their service to our country. the strong turn out of the country is a strong predicter of our country and institutions. laura and i are grateful to the volunteers who oversaw a free and fair election and we join

our fellow citizens in praying for success for our new leaders at all forms of government. and god bless our country. ." you worked with george w. bush and you were on the sidelines, and you saw former president presidentbarack obama, he was ns sharp as liz cheney but he praise the the elections. >> he offered up heaps of praise for the candidates, the one who just won and the one who is outgoing. i love george w. bush and i hated that he was being harangued by all of the people saying the worst things about him when he was in office, begging him to enter into the election, its terrible. he has long been retired from politics, and the people were banging on him all throughout to come in and try to save kamala harris. it was wrong then, and i think that he should have the prerogative of what he wanted to

do, and this statement is a beautiful statement from a guy who doesn't want to be plunged into partisan politics every day of his life. so great statement and i'm as proud to work for him as i was at the time. >> it's a great statement and i would push back on the idea that he was being h harangued to come in and save kamala harris. there's a mission conception here. i would love nothing more for the fears of what a donald trump second term looks like to be wrong. concerns about democracy, and no one -- i speak for myself, but fine. nobody who wanted so see kamala harris elected president wants to see the second trump term continue to tear away at the norms of our democracy or threaten our elective fidelity in this country. of course we -- we would be

thrilled for that not to bear out. so it was not about asking george w. bush to insert himself into partisan politics as if we're trying to get him involved in a senate race somewhere. but it's about recognizing the potential stakes, based on trump's actions or rhetoric. >> i grew new southern baptist. and the preacher retires and he goes to the back of the church and you don't look over the new guy's shoulder. i lamb he want that barack obama got in the race and jimmy carter was in the race, they should all be quiet and george w. bush is the model president in that regard. all of them should do that. you serve two terms and like george washington, you go back to your house and be this should not have been done. >> i remember when george w. bush was president and mitt romney ran, and democrats called him a sexist and joe biden said

that we were going to put you all in chains when talking about black people. and then we love george w. bush and we lost mitt romney and all of the worst people. >> i don't know if it was george or dick cheney. >> it was bush. >> scott was there. when i was peering out my window from the white house complex watching people marching around with huge signs, with george w. bush with hitler mustaches, i can assure you that george w. bush -- in effectively, they were asking old hitler to come in and stop new hitler, and it was the worst thing that the democrats could do. >> we have to take a break. donald trump heading back to the white house with at least one chamber of congress ready to support him. we're going to talk to one harris supporter who will now be in the minority in the senate. more cnn special coverage after this.

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his second term. the gop set to take control of both the white house and the senate and the house isn't looking much better their democrats with one republican operative telling cnn, "we feel very confident." the results are forcing democrats to see that the voters are sending a message. if you're winning new jersey by 5, there's something bigger at play here. here to discuss, chris coons of delaware, the co-chair of the harris campaign and he was co-chair of the biden campaign before the president exited the race. it's a tough morning for the campaign and for your party and i have to ask you, how do you explain the sweeping victory for donald trump and for the republican party? >> well, casey it's still too early to know in great detail what led to this outcome, but

from what i'm seeing and hearing, a big focus on the economy and inflation and a lot of folks not recognizing the real progress that was made by president biden and vice president harris, and we have seen landmark partisan legislation signed into law in the last couple of years that does important things that americans want. reducing prescription drugs, and the price of insulin and the infrastructure but they didn't feel it and they didn't give us why for it. >> sir, a source familiar tells me that kamala harris, the vice president is going to call donald trump today to concede the race. have you spoken with the vice president, have you spoken with president biden? what can you tell us about her plans to concede, her plans to speak, and also anything about the president's reaction? >> i can't speak to what vice president harris is going to do. you don't want to get ahead of

any announcements that she may make. i think it's appropriate that those who win and those who lose have respectful conversations and that we pursue an orderly transfer of power in our electoral system. i did talk to the president i think it was just yesterday and he was in a positive place, he was looking forward and he was optimistic about the election outcome. i haven't spoken to him yet today. and there's a lot to do in his remaining weeks, and i know that he is hopeful that the legacy of the progress he has made overseas in strengthening our alliances here at home and investing in the middle class have some chance of continuing and moving forward and i'm going to continue to both defend his record and advocate for his style of politics. his belief in the middle class, in rebuilding our country and economy from the bottom up and middle out and in fighting for a bipartisan vision of how we can come together and make a

difference for the country and the world. >> sir, there is already some anger bubbling, some recriminations out there, as happens in any situation where a candidate loses. but i'm wondering, does president biden regret his decision to run for re-election? do you, now knowing the result regret that decision, and would the democrats have been better off with a competitive primary? >> look, i think its hard to look back and look at what could have or should have been. president biden has a very strong legislative record of bipartisan accomplishments. our economy is the strongest of any coming out of the pandemic, and the american people felt sharply the loss, the economic damage that was the result of inflation around the world. incumbents have lost re-election in a dozen other democracies and countries, and i think there's a

populist and anti-incumbent wave because of the impact of both the pandemic and the recovery from it. and i think that president biden did a strong and capable and even manufactureful job of pulling us out of the economic depths of the pandemic, and i think that he did a great job of feeling our democracy after january 6th and put on the board a lot of accomplishments, investing in our veterans and economy and research and manufacturing jobs back to our country. but we have to sit down as a democratic party and look hard at why that didn't compel more folks to come out and vote for democratic candidates, both in the senate and in our presidential candidate, vice president harris. >> senator coons, we're unfortunately out of time. but i hope that you will come back, and we have so much to talk about, especially ukraine and all of the issues facing our nation in terms of foreign

policy and upcoming trump administration. i do very much appreciate your willingness and it's a tough day for you and others, thank you for being here. >> it is, and look forward to being on again. >> john burman. >> political experts, talking about what happened. and let's turn the page and talk about what happens now. vice president harris, first, short-term in a long-term, we have to hear from her in the next few hours, and how do you think she handle it's today and what do you think the future is for her? >> first and foremost, we're waiting for her to come out and make these remarks, and said if earlier in the program, this is probably her last really big speech that she's going to give so i'm sure they're pouring over it, and it's legacy for her at this point on how she graciously gets out of this at this point. as far as what happens long-term, you can't count anybody out in politics anymore. we have people who have all come

back, including the president-elect of the united states, but in addition to that though, i do think that democrats are really going to start thinking to themselves now, do they try to use every lever and power in government which is probably executive orders across a host of issues and have biden do those quickly before he gets knocked out of office and donald trump comes in, because it does look bleak finish at least the next two years for democrats. >> this is the point about executive orders. it's really important. and we have to remember that the supreme court has essentially said that anything that the president does while they're in offense gets granted presidential immunity. you know, people have been saying for a while that joe biden should take advantage of that. and he has not and now is the time to take advantage of that. and the other thing that i think is really important is that kamala harris needs to give the kind of speech that i think acknowledges just how historic and important her campaign was.

and i think it's kind of the statement that you make when, on essentially on the aftermath of the election, you can point and say even as the country is changing and radically different, here is an option. here is what so many people in this country also chose. and so there's a way to do it that is both magnanimous but also sets the blueprint for what the democrats can do in the future, particularly because if you are a member of the democratic party, there are dark times ahead but it's also time for rebirth and rethinking what the democratic party stands for and how to actually reach and touch people. and to use kamala harris perhaps as a linchpin to do that, it's a really powerful thing that should happen in her speech. >> harry, thanks for walking over here just to look pretty. >> i think that i look pretty gosh darned good, waiting

around. >> who will president trump hire to serve in his next term? a man who briefs it in the first trump administration joins us ahead.

>> all right, donald trump's win today has an effect on the stock market. the dow surging by more than 1300 points, and let's get right to someone in the business, anthonyskaramuchi. i know it has been a long night for you, and what do you think the trump victory means? if you could boil it down to 20 seconds, what does it mean? the most quickly for the american people? >> great for my portfolio, but i'm sad for the country, and john, it's a good thing i don't drink, it would have emptied the liquor cabinet behind me. it's a sad day for a lot of people. they talk about nonwhite immigrants to the united states in a very us versus them

dehumanizing sort of way. so hopefully when he takes that mantle of leadership again, i hope that he takes pause and thinks about that, that the country needs to unite and there needs to be a healing process in the country. i congratulate the president, elon musk was a well executed campaign. he won the popular vote, john, and it's a democracy, so he's my president and your president and i do wish him well, but i'm wary. because the rhetoric that he was using in the campaign, if he executes on that rhetoric it will be good for some people, but not for all of america and that's something that worries me. >> so you did work in the administration for a brief time and you were around in the transition for a bit too. and what do people who may end up working in this next trump administration, and he'll be staffing up soon, what do they node to know based on your experience? >> i'm not proud of all of this, but i was the first persn

on wall street to move toward donald trump in 2016 and helped him raise a lot of money and spent 9 months on the campaign providing advocacy, and then the on the transition as an executive committee person. it was not just days in the white house i worked with him. but what happens with all of the people that work with him, he starts doing things that you're questioning, and you're taking an oath to serve the american people and the process and the system, john, not the person, and when that starts to get into aggressive combative position with comp, you either get fired, you resign or you end up like the 40 of us that tried to warn the american people what he was like inside of the administration. but he's there you go, and he's got a whole new set of people because that's what happens in trump world. it's a carousel. you come in and wear a maga hat

and smile and you get a knife plunged in your back on the way out. that happened to a good many people and the people there now think it's not going to happen to them. and past performance is not indicative of the future but i think it is in this case, and i would caution those people and remind those people, there are rules and a system in place in the united states and you're taking an oath to the constitution and the office. not to the person. >> anthony, thank you for taking this time to talk with us, and we'll speak with you again soon. we have a lot of time to digest. >> john, there's some tequila here for you in this mini-bar in the hotel if you need it. >> i have hours to go before i do any drinking, no mercy there, thank you, appreciate it. so donald trump is the president-elect. and the republican party will have control of the senate and the house is still in play with a lot of races to call. cnn live coverage continues next.

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barnett. i want to welcome our viewers around the states and the world. >> several battleground states are being counted. the race to 270 is over at donald trump will be the 47th president of united states. this is cnn's special coverage of election day in america. donald trump cruises to victory winning a second term at capping off an astounding political comeback. trump dismantled the so-called blue wall seizing on the economy and immigration , to stifle kamala harris's abbreviated campaign. let's take a look at his road to 270. you can see the electoral college map, all of those red states for trump and

blue states going to kamala harris. right now trump has 276 electoral college votes and you need to hundred 70 , he will be the next president of the united states, kamala harris with 223 electoral college votes create you can see what is going on. in the popular vote, trump also wins, this is significant. he has 51%, molly harris 47.1%. this is 89% of the estimated vote in . he is up by more than 5 million votes , he has more than 71 million votes she has more than 66 million votes. trump wins the popular vote, wins that the electoral map a major win for the former president of the united states. there are still several battleground states on-call, standby for a key race alert. take a look at these states, we are counting votes in these states, in michigan,

15 electoral votes with 98% of the estimated vote in, trump is ahead 49.8% to 48.2%, he is ahead by some 93,000 plus votes in michigan. in arizona with 11 electoral votes, 63% of the estimated vote in, trump has 51.9% to 47.2% . he is up by little more than 100,000 votes in arizona. in nevada trump is ahead there as well. 88% of the estimated vote is in, he has 58.5%, molly harris is 46.8%, he is up by nearly 60,000 votes in nevada which has six electoral votes. i want to walk over to phil mattingly at the magic wall and talk more on how we got to this moment. >> we knew going into last night there were several battlegrounds, there were several places that they were riding over the path to 270. the path we did not get into a

lot as we were walking through the different options was the path it looked like this, the entire blue wall turned red. both of the southeastern states, but carolina and georgia read. arizona nevada read. seven for seven, that is where things are heading. donald trump is over 270 electoral votes. the big question going into the night was , could the coalition that joe biden put together to win in 2022 take back the blue walls dates in 2016 flip georgia, flip arizona, potentially flip north carolina, could kamala harris and her campaign matchup ? we got an answer fairly early on. i can slice and dice, wolf, every single county what did and did not happen and whoever performed and who did not. let's put it like this, in the counties of pennsylvania where the donald trump trump over perform his 2020 margin ? every county but five, including all of the democratic strongholds. we are talking here in philadelphia county, he flipped

bucks county, these are counties that joe biden really used to drive his victory in 2020. all but these five counties right here , donald trump over perform his 2020 map. every single one of those counties. what about vice president harris? where did she underperform where joe biden did in 2020? pull that up . all of the counties lit up red or blue are places where harris underperform biden's 20/20 result including in the critical democratic strongholds philadelphia into the collar counties including allegheny. it was not underperformance by a significant margin but these are the areas that the harris campaign did not need to just match were joe biden was they needed to bump up to make up for what they knew would be a strong effort by the trump campaign. one last point, tying to all of this not just in the seven battlegrounds, wolf , where the donald trump over

perform in the entire country compared to his 2020 results? every single county lit up red or blue across the country, granted we are still counting out west, donald trump did better than he did in 2020 it is not just a blue wall or sunbelt states or out west, it is the entire country donald trump did significantly better than he did in 2020 , better than he did in 2016 it was a scale victory that i don't think anyone expected even very competent trump campaign. >> it explains why he not only won the electoral college vote and also the popular vote which is very significant as well , 89% of the popular vote is in as well and he is ahead by almost 5 million votes over molly harris. he will be proud of that, not often a republican presidential candidate wins the popular vote even after that candidate wins the electoral college. phil mattingly, thank

you very much. >> republicans will control the executive branch as well as the u.s. senate. control of the house of representatives is still unclear. cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju is following this. what is the latest? >> republicans do have control of the senate. they just had to net one seat if donald trump won the presidency and they picked up three. right now the senate is 52-42, that is three pickups, west virginia, montana and ohio all in the republican column, used to be democratic seats. they could grow their senate majority. they are leading in two states at the moment, that is nevada and also in pennsylvania republicans could get up to 54 seats , there are couple of others that we have not called yet and purple states like wisconsin and democrats right now currently have a edge in and we

will see what turns out there. republicans are feeling very good about the senate. where do things stand with potential democrats having any power in washington? the united states houses the big question at the moment , 204 seats republicans have, they picked up five, democrats picked up two. they have to net four seats to take back the house and right now they are not a path to do that. right now democrats are leading in just five republican districts. why this is complicated is that democrats are trailing in some states as well. there are three states that republicans are leading in democratic districts. it shows you the complication they face in taking back the house majority. let's drill into why the democrats are struggling. unable to come at the moment, get there. this is a state and nebraska , a state in which joe biden carried easily , kamala harris carried it last night and democrats thought this would flip, that at the moment is not happening, the incumbent republican is ahead by 8300 votes against a democratic

challenger tony vargas in the second district in nebraska. 95% of the vote in and republicans feeling good about that. a couple of seats in california that democrats thought they could pick up, the incumbent republican is ahead by 3100 votes against the democratic challenger, 40% of the vote is in and more to come in at the moment. republicans are feeling good about that seat. another seat in california this is congressman mike garcia. he is from southern california from the los angeles area, democrats had high hopes of this district to flip . at the moment garcia is ahead by 5300 votes against his democratic challenger. 65% of the estimated vote is in. there are still some pick up opportunities for democrats including new york one of the ones we are looking at is on long island, the republican incumbent is a freshman and he is trailing his democratic challenger by 6100 votes , 92%

of the vote is in. perhaps democrats can pick that up. this is complicated. so few districts are truly at risk of flipping. republicans could pick up some, democrats could pick up others, can they get the four seats? it is a complicated path to get 218 seats for the democrats to pick up control of the house, which is why the speaker of the house, mike johnson put out a statement , saying he is confident the gop will retain power in the house. >> we will keep a look on those pre-thank you very much. my colleague is standing bar with more campaign reaction. for periods >> there are still things we don't know. the picture of what we are looking at is startling clear. we are standing by to hear from vice president kamala harris. obviously she did not speak last night, a source tells us she will deliver her speech this afternoon at howard university and this will be the first time that we will hear and see from her since she lost

to donald trump, a night that she thought would go very differently and trump seem to think it could go differently. michelle alvarez is outside the campaign quarters. alayna treene is outside trump headquarters this morning. wasilla, what do you know about what has gone on in the past few hours in the inner circle of that campaign where we had all heard their view, they have been public and confident they thought they could win all six or seven swing states and yet here we are. >> reporter: erin i have been speaking to allies close to the vice president and sources close to the campaign and they are in a state of shock and disbelief images to give you a sense of what i am hearing. one source said their stomach is in knots be at another telling they felt terrible and another describing the mood among campaign officials as quote , gloomy. it was pennsylvania,

the results that came in from pennsylvania that was a nail in the coffin. the source also saying bluntly the caveat won. the reason there is so much shock this morning among those closest to the vice president is because of what was being said privately and publicly by senior harris campaign officials. essentially projecting optimism and confidence in the final hours leading up to election night , feeling as though they could pull undecided voters to their site . of course, finger-pointing has begun . part of the strategy also included bringing in disaffected republicans who they believe were fatigued by former president donald trump as well is trying to lock in parts of the coalition where they had been waning in enthusiasm. the numbers have shown they were not able to accomplish that including some of the counties that they banked on peeling off some of the republican votes. as you mentioned earlier the vice president will be speaking at 4:00 p.m. at her alma mater here at howard university. she

is also inspected to call former president donald trump ahead of that speech. a lot of work going on behind the scenes to work on those remarks. >> i can only imagine that phone call. just came out the other day, low iq, all of these things, you have to pick up the phone and make the call. these moments remember , human beings. let's get to the trump campaign where alayna treene is. alayna here's the thing, it appeared the way the trump campaign was acting he did not think he would win , he did not just barely win he won in a landslide. how does this adjustment sink in and what do his next few hours look like? >> reporter: you are certainly right . heading into yesterday donald trump's campaign said they were cautiously optimistic but behind the scenes there was a lot of uneasiness. they

expected the race to be incredibly close. we are not expecting it to be called as soon as it was. when i talked to some advisors soon after most of the networks, including ours had called it for donald trump . they said they were obviously excited but also relieved because they had not anticipated that it would come so quickly, particularly those crucial votes in the battleground states. as for today , i am told donald trump is laying low for the most part. we know he has been taking calls with a series of people who are congratulating him. one thing to note, clearly we have seen foreign leaders publicly reach out and congratulate him online, they have also been calling him as have ceos. donald trump's campaign is closely tracking who is reaching out and when. donald trump values loyalty . many times above all else. this is something there watching very closely throughout the course of the day. >> even watching world leaders. you think about what people

said and what they thought and what they are saying how does he manage that? so much as resting on how he manages that. thank you so much. thank you. my team of experts is here with me. you are the senior white house correspondent, i understand you're working sources and getting the information, what are you learning? >> obviously there will be a lot of soul-searching and a lot of questions in the coming days about what if anything could democrats and the harris campaign have done differently ? one thing we are clearly already starting to see take place is finger-pointing and the blame game. a lot of that will be erected at president biden. this is even coming from some folks inside the harris campaign . one senior official that i talked to said biden will hold a lot of blame and frankly they said he should. one of the ways in which he is being blamed right now actually goes back to the simple decision of seeking a second term and reelection and the

first-place. remember back in 2020 when he was writing he initially said i plan on being a transition and a bridge president. of course , he changed his mind ultimately and set i am the only person that can defeat donald trump , i have more work to do and ended up seeking a second term. when his performance completely blew up at the cnn debate over the summer, he had no choice ultimately he was forced to get out of the race that is why we had is truncated kamala harris campaign in the first place and democrats are looking back on all of this and thinking about what about that parallel universe where joe biden had not sought a second term and there had been a full democratic primary contest where the party actually chose whoever they thought was going to be the strongest person to run a full campaign. again, one of many ways in which democrats will be asking themselves tough questions . a lot of tough questions will be aimed at president biden. >> a lot of tough questions

indeed. gloria, let's talk about what was going on and mistakes may have been made . the harris campaign focused heavily on abortion rights for women focused heavily on the threat to democracy. the cnn out overnight showed it was the economy and more specifically inflation that was a decisive issue for voters, nearly 7 in 10 describe the economy is not good or poor. 75% said inflation caused their family hardship in the last year. was this a miscalculation on the part of the harris campaign? >> as mj was saying, i think kamala harris had a albatross around her neck and it was joe biden. she had a very difficult job separating herself from joe. in the exit polls use the 80% of trump supporters say they are worse off than they were four years ago. the economy was a major issue. she tried to say here are my plans

, but i think a pivotal moment was on the view when she could not distance herself from biden and could not think of anything that she would have done differently. this is a moment in this country , one source described to me this morning as a rolling realignment where you have these disaffected voters who are upset because they are not doing as well as they were doing four years ago and it is not based on race , it is based on class because donald trump has brought in all of these new hispanic voters and black voters for example and the democrats are left being the party of the elite, which they feel has nothing to do with them. she had a tough job. she had to do it in just over 100 days. looking back on it, that might seem like an impossible task. >> a challenge indeed. mj you

are the white house correspondent, we know kamala harris will be delivering a speech at her alma mater, howard university, in washington, d.c. later. do you know if she plans on calling trump and congratulate him? >> as we reported that phone call is likely to happen before she addresses the public. remarkable . there was a whole election night party set up at her alma mater in washington, d.c. last night . she ended up not making an appearance period . it really reminds you of 2016 where hillary clinton was supposed to appear and everybody thought there was going to be a celebration and ultimately john podesta came out to tell the crowd it is time to go home, we cannot call the race. it is going to be very , very interesting to watch what tone the vice president takes as she publicly concedes this race , again, presumably have after having done that privately in a phone call to donald trump. donald

trump is somebody that the vice president recently referred to as a fascist. she minced no words when talking about donald trump and the threat she believes he poses to the country and now here we are, the day after election day and we know this is the man that is going to return to the white house. how does she talk to a big segment of the country and the population that is going to be completely devastated by the thought of another four years of a trump presidency . >> it is the popular vote as well. we are not just talk about the electoral college anymore, it is quite an achievement to win both, that has not happened in a while. she has to recognize that they got walked. whamped . you have to go look at why that's hard to do. the democratic party at large has a lot of thinking to do about what the american people think.

>> she referred to trump as a fascist , but we know the way he was talking about her , low iq and all that stuff. let's see what happens in the course of the next few hours. thank you very much. stay with cnn our special coverage, election day in america continues his back after a short break.

welcome back. world voters and latino men delivered big for president trump last night propelling him back to the white house. the former president built on his support making significant gains with these two groups most notably. let's dig into the exit polls. when the exit polls first started to come out there was the usual caveat that this was all in there but it was sort of, you don't know what this means and you don't know if this will pan out and in this case it did. looking at doing the deep dive, what stands out now? >> reporter: you mention rural voters off the top. we mentioned we knew he was going to do well with rural voters but it's surprising at how well he did. look at this margin, we are looking at a 27 point win for donald trump with rural voters, that is a double digit improvement from what he did in 2020. of course you

mention latino voters, let's dig in and among latino voters, we will dig in among latino men. look at this. donald trump won among latino men. why is that impressive ? i went back to the exit polls the last 52 years, all the way back to 1972 and granted i am tired, i believe this is the first time that a republican candidate for president has carried latino men . donald trump was the one to do it. let's look at state level data regarding latino men, this also gives you an understanding that donald trump did not do it nationally or in one state, he did it across the nation. latino men and the state of florida, look at this margin for donald trump, 39 points. why's that impressive ? four years ago joe biden carried latino men in the great strait of florida . it isn't just florida let's go to texas. again here it is a similar story. look at this margin, 29 point win for donald trump among latino men, again, another state where four years

ago joe biden carried latino men and this time around donald trump did. >> those are stunning margins. >> they are huge. >> i think the part that is something to consider and maybe give everyone the ability and those a.i. geniuses, we do not see that. we have talked donald trump voters in every case and perhaps that is ground zero for that theory. i do have breaking news i want to share with everyone as we go to talk to our panel. kamala harris has now reached out to speak to donald trump. obviously to concede and speak to him. we do know she will address the country at 4:00 this afternoon. she wants to speak to the next president before she does that. my panel is back with me. ashley, that phone call, the speech she will give will be difficult, she is taking her time to prepare herself. this phone call with

trump , again , on a human level, these are two people making a call. she is making a call to someone who has that all these things about her and that is a phone call that has to happen and we anticipate will happen at any moment. >> it definitely should happen, it has not always happened, in 2020. this is the type of woman kamala harris is, this is why i support her and she is an adult and she believes in our democracy and she understands the voters have spoken and she with the results of the election. she loves this country so much and it is not about her it is about the will of the people. it takes a lot of courage to make that call, nobody likes to lose . you do not run an election to lose, definitely do not run for the president of united states to lose . i am sure it will be hard. i am sure this is not the

first time she has had to work with somebody or have a conversation with someone who has said nasty things about her . she has done many great things in her life and i'm sure she will handle it with grace and dignity as she has on the campaign trail. >> karen, i asked harry something, he is going through these numbers and we will talk a lot about this, across the country there were some important things. when it came to women, the exit polling, again , throw caution you can see it but you don't know what people really say, it turned out to be accurate. kamala harris did not do better than joe biden or hillary clinton when it came to support among women. >> white women specifically. >> why is that ? >> books will be written about this. one of the many reasons, i will say, women as voters tend to be very hard on women candidates. that is just the data. probably all kinds of reasons for that. she did do

well among young women , which is interesting. >> lines at college campuses. >> there is something cultural going on. we saw this in 2016 , in the aftermath one of the things that was found, one of the top reasons that people who had voted for trump voted for trump again, he had a strong majority of white voters that he was able to turn out and it was cultural anxiety. where do i fit in in this changing world? this time around what he was able to do was to identify the anxiety among young men , particularly young white men and it turns out latino men and to embrace them with the same kind of icu and i feel you and i relate to you and give you up place . if you identify that and you look at the data that's where the search came.

>> i don't think anyone had on the bingo card that you would look at the republican party or let me be more specific, trumps party, where you had so many different groups across racial, ethnic lines on that side. >> it is remarkable election returns. we were saying during the break earlier , basically the harris campaign theory of the electorate was right as it was the trump theory. the trump theory was more right. they turned up the game in rural counties and they turned up the game with gen x men and i think one of the problems that this eliminates , it is not just on the gender stuff , it is also a whole broad range of politics is that these categories become shorthand clichés for politics . trump is, i have not seen the

numbers unmarried women going into it it looks like he is going to win with married women. for young single women that harris did really well with. at some point the talk of gender gap obscures the other differences and things going on with the electorate. >> david, somehow, comments like childless cat ladies or things that were said , which rightfully incensed many people, it did not land the way people anticipated they would land. maybe they did with younger single women. things became shorthand for how it would go were not the accurate indicators. >> can you imagine what the boat might have been if he did not say those things ? i am not a dad or analyst and i don't know the numbers but there is a big number increase, african american men jumped . where you

see too and this has been discussed, it is socioeconomic divide. is college-educated versus non-college-educated. working-class versus the upper-middle-class . people who work with their hands versus people who sit behind a desk. that is how the parties that breaking down. i was chief of staff kind of a moderate republican in pennsylvania. they are now democrats and the people i grew up with a beaver county pennsylvania who were blue-collar working-class democrats are now republicans. that is what's taking place. i think a lot of that makes up for , it does not matter if you are black or white it just matters where you work or live. >> history will show we do not have the perspective what happened covid, who went out to work and who did it. now it seems perhaps these things --

>> ashley and i kind of share, she is kind of across the border but starkly the same place come it is very different than if you grew up in shaker heights or the mainland of philadelphia. it does not matter if you're black, white or hispanic , it matters where you grow up, the zip code matters more this time. >> we are coming back. we have a lot to talk about. i hope all of you will be as well as we try to understand the meaning and significance of this very historic moment. >> by the way, what will the market do? you heard all these things economic experts say harris's plan will be better. that's not how the market saw it. the dow is up now more than 1300 points that is a record high. that is just an initial response. it is still stunning donald trump's return to the white house is sparking that.

welcome back to cnn special coverage of the 2024 election. donald trump is heading back to the white house, as we all know by now. republicans also have control of the incoming senate. control of the house of representatives is still hanging in the balance. i want

to bring and has a publican conference chair who was a surrogate for the trump campaign and projected she won easily won reelection in her district. thank you for coming in. i want to get to what is happening in the house in a second, what is your immediate reaction to donald trump's very impressive and decisive win in the electoral college and the popular vote? >> this was a overwhelming victory for president trump. we the people made our voices heard. you can see a new republican party he made historic gains among african american voters, latino voters, asian american voters, jewish voters. you see in every county across the america kamala harris underperformed beau biden and donald trump over performed his 2020 outcome. this is a successful campaign and it was successful on the issues. the top two issues were the economy and the border and

president trump day in and day out presented his message of how he was going to grow the economy, crush inflation and secure the border. is america first message appealed across party lines. >> your party, the republican party , congresswoman, looks like it has flipped the senate. the house of representatives , and you are a member of the house, that is still much in play. how important is it for the incoming president and for your party to retain the house? >> it is very important and we are very optimistic that we will not only hold the house but we will pick up seats and here's why . if you look at the turnout in support of president trump and how he provided coattails to senate candidates with flip senate races, we believe we are seeing the same thing. we had two pickups in pennsylvania , there were three losses in new york that was an overall win for us, democrats try to defeat five republican incumbents in new york state. we are also

watching upper main district as well as california seats that are trending in our direction. we think we will pick up seats, having a unified republican government to allow us to focus on the border and secure economic policies. that is a top priority and that is why we were hard campaigning side by side with president trump . >> if the house does not go in trump's favor, do you think he is ready to come to the negotiating table on any important issues with the democrats? >> i think the house is going to go in republicans favor and president trump said so last night and he knows how to read the votes better than anyone. this is where i think the media did not give president trump enough credit in his first term. he delivered many bipartisan victories whether it was the usmca updated trade agreements to support american manufacturer, small businesses and farms him he passed the first step back, he passed the right to try and to make life-saving drugs available. the media never wanted to give him i partisan credit come up but he delivered major, major

bipartisan wins in the first term and we will have a republican house to work to pass the agenda and secure the border. the real question needs to be asked, why have democrats failed to reach out to into voters, they lost independence and they underperformed the it the radical message is woefully out of touch. to tell the american people the economy is okay when people see it at the grocery stores every day. president trump won on the message and the substance and outworked kamala harris. >> we did give him credit for the abraham accord as you well know representative stefanik, when he brought new partners with israel to work with united arab emirates, that was a significant achievement on his part as i am sure you appreciate as well. you are the republican conference chair -- >> i want to add to that. >> go ahead >> let me comment on that because i think that is important. people are paying attention what is happening around the world come a particularly the middle east

and our precious ally israel that is under attack. as you laid out the biggest breakthrough for peace normalization in a quarter-century , we had peace and stability around the world, that was a driving issue that president trump won overwhelmingly. >> it certainly helped him win a significant representative of the jewish vote out there in your district as well, i'm sure you appreciate. you are the republican conference chair. what do you see as the party's top priority when the 47 president of the united states, donald trump, takes office ? >> we have been very straightforward telling the american people it is securing the border and growing the economy . president trump laid out his vision and policy plans on both. the good news is we know what a secure border looks like. we can go back to his successful border security

policies. has passed the secure border act with every republican vote and voters held democrats accountable. we intend to pass that growing the economy, unleashing energy independence is key. we passed that bill among house republicans, president trump is ready to get to work unleashing american energy dominance and of course growing the economy by ensuring that we continue to cut taxes for hard-working americans and that means no tax on tips, no tax on social security, these are policy agenda items that president trump rolled out and a kamala harris took and rolled out after the fact because they were resonating so significantly. crushing inflation is top of mind and we believe a path towards economic growth will help crush skyrocketing inflation. >> congresswoman elise stefanik of new york, thank you for joining us at congratulations on your very impressive win in upstate new york. >> stay with cnn, our special coverage continues are right after this short break.

right now the market surge you can see on the screen, the election of donald trump causing a total search of more than 1300 points for the dow jones. let's bring in the chairman of o'leary adventures, i guess it is adventures . >> we do have some adventures. >> shark tank theme and all of that. here we are. you have

been a supporter of a number of trumps economic proposals. can i start with where we are this morning ? i am sure there were moments last night where you were as shocked as everyone else, this is how this is really going. what went through your head? then you see the markets surge and the immediate reaction. the first market i saw move was bitcoin . it trades 24/7. we started to see that deceptive midnight. by the way, i always preface my comments i don't show for politicians but for policy. i am looking for pro-business policy. when i saw bitcoin moving, a lot of that coming from asia, those markets , and the middle east, those markets were watching you and other outlets that they can feed the siding this is getting interesting and bitcoin was a huge winner. >> trump has been a big supporter bitcoin. >> he also supports digital payment system . this is a good sector for us .

>> this is the age-old question i know you have to caveat that you will not know for sure , he says a lot of things, he has said a lot of things . do you think he will do these things? do you think he will put tariffs and or is that a negotiating strategy he was doing to say something to signal to china ? >> as you know going through congress is a tariff bill that is very fair to him if germany taxes us, it cost you the same thing it will be reciprocal, with the exception of china . i am an advocate for turning up the heat on china so we get them to the table to join that act. they came to the wto in 1999. people think they are sales tax , it is not, it is a negotiating tactic and this is what he does well, i would argue. the supreme leader now knows trump is going to run the show. if trump says i'm cranking up to 400% until you get over here to washington, he will fly to washington. that's

what we need. we need trumps negotiating tactic , the uncertainty he brings to the table. these adversaries get nervous when they do not understand the direction he is going . >> let me ask you a couple of important questions, first let's talk elon musk. you know him. you he wasn't a simental part, he got on board early. trump says he is going to run -- i kind of name it after -- . the department of government efficiency. you think elon musk will come in and do that ? do you think he is capable of doing that in a good way? is this more rhetoric than reality? >> no , actually, i used to work for steve jobs , he was not a nice guy to work for, by the way that he was 85% signal , 15% noise. the only other entrepreneur that i have ever seen that is more efficient than jobs is elon musk. he is 100% signal , difficult social

skills as a result, it does not matter. >> that was diplomatically put . >> every mandate he's decided to take on he is executed on. no man on earth has executional skills like that. if he says he will do that, he will surround himself with advocates and he will put them to work. if you look at his business models he brings good quality then he comes in and runs the show. he will need trump to back him on this. no agency wants to be downsized. if they do this, they can find a lot of savings. >> do you believe, from what you are hearing, and maybe the fact that trump is on track to win the popular vote but this is such a mandate it was not a doubtful victory, the big worry that people have is who will he attract to work for him after last time . >> i have good news for you. howard is running the transition team. i spoke with him very briefly. a listers coming in. we will not have the

same volatility that we had on mandate one. trump 2.0 once this to work. it will not be a rotating doors of guys coming in and writing books about their horrible experience. they are going to find great people to run this mandate. this is his legacy mandate. he will be good for three years before he is a lame-duck and he knows that it >> you think he does know that? you think he cares? >> being shot at twice sobers you up a bit. he is changed, he is far more pragmatic. i am a advocate to let him do his thing and watch them go to work he cares a lot about the economy and he made promises he wants to keep. you get to that point in life we want to leave something behind that was a great thing . i think this is what we he will be focused on. i want to say something about the outcome , we corrected ourselves last night. america corrected itself. we were going to a crazy place but that's what i love about democracy it fixed itself. we are all better

off. even the democrats, this was good for them, they get to reboot, this party will be stronger in 36 months. >> it will change. tank you very much. >> stay with cnn because election day in america continued is back after this short break.

i am wolf blitzer alongside aaron burnett. >> several battleground states we are waiting for results being counted. let's just be clear, this race to 270 is

over, this is cnn special coverage of election day in america continued. >> donald trump return to the white house. the president-elect pulling off potentially the biggest political comeback in american history. remarkably trump made significant gains in nearly every demographic group across the country and now is on track to win the popular vote as well. something he failed to do in his previous two presidential runs. also at stake, the balance of power in washington. republicans have flipped the u.s. senate. we are learning they are growing more more confident and they will also keep control of the house of representatives. more on that in a moment. we have a key race alert for you right now.

>> let's take a look at the key race alert starting in michigan with its 15 electoral votes, 98% of the estimated vote is in, trump has a lead of nearly 100,000 votes , 49.8% to 48.2% for kamala harris. in arizona and it's 11 electoral votes, 63% of the vote is in, trump has the lead come a 51.9% to 37.2%. a lead slightly more than 100,000 votes over kamala harris in arizona. another key battleground state . nevada and its six electoral votes, 80% of the estimated vote is in, trump is ahead in nevada city 1.5% to 46.8%. a lead of nearly 60,000 votes for trump over harrison nevada. we are hours from now, the vice president kamala harris will be speaking after conceding to donald trump.

priscilla alvarez is at the harris campaign headquarters in washington, d.c.. kristin holmes is at the trump headquarters in west palm beach florida. let's start with vice president kamala harris. she has reached out to trump to concede, but has not connected yet with him. priscilla, what else do we know? >> reporter: she wants to connect with him before she delivers her remarks at her alma mater at howard university later this afternoon. this is where she was having her election night party last night. she did not give remarks of been , she will give them today. certainly the feeling among harris allies, those close to the campaign and those in the campaign is a sense and state of shock of disbelief. that is what i have been hearing over the course of the morning am including the early morning hours. one source saying their stomach was in knots. another saying they felt terrible and another saying

that the mood among campaign officials was gloomy and the results came in in pennsylvania that was the linchpin of their strategy to 270 eligible votes, that really was , as this person put it, the nail in the the reason this has been a sock among those close to the harris campaign is because privately and publicly senior campaign officials had been projecting confidence and optimism over the course of the day yesterday essentially citing internal data as suggesting that some of the undecided voters, some of the voters that they were targeting were leaning towards the vice president. the results show that was not entirely the case and some of that has led to finger-pointing especially for example the strategies to reach disaffected republicans. some of those red county stayed red including higher margins for former president donald trump . certainly a reckoning within the party as they move forward today. we were also told, the vice president when she gives remarks intends to implore her

supporters to respect the outcome of the election and to urge them to find common ground. we will hear more on all of that later this afternoon when the vice president speaks at howard university. >> we will have live coverage for sure. >> let's turn to kristin holmes right now. what are you hearing from the trump team in west palm beach? >> reporter: i do want to quickly touch on this idea that harris has been reaching out to donald trump. we have reached out to several advisors and campaign staff to see why harris is unable to reach the former president and we have not heard back when it comes to the former president, his team is clearly celebrating and they have been celebrating since last night. they were projecting cautious optimism and then we saw what happened last night when donald trump won the presidency, or i guess early this morning. one thing that they are contending with is the knives are out. not just talking at the campaign level but in donald trump's whole

orbit. i have talked to a number of sources who are already starting that jockeying for position on the trump administration. they are talking about various jobs like secretary of state, like chief of staff. they are trying to get the names floated. they are trying to prove trump's inner circle and that is likely the people who have been close to him during the campaign just how loyal they have been. we talked about this in january, donald trump was keeping very close tabs on when exactly republicans backed him. that they back him after iowa or before? are they joining his team as close to 2022 when he was exiled essentially from the republican party ? or were they just coming around in recent weeks ? all of this is something donald trump is likely to take into consideration. he has not been having serious conversations about what his transition would look like or what the ministration will look like because he is so superstitious. that is all now going to change.

>> kristin holmes at west palm beach, florida. let's bring in our panel for some serious discussion. mj , let's talk about the externa reporting we are getting from inside the harris camp where there is apparently a lot of fingers being pointed at by the. >> there's a lot of finger-pointing going on as democrats are trying to process what happened and how is it possible that we suffered such a loss and one of the people that is going to get a brunt of that is president biden, going back to his decision to even seek reelection in the first place. something else that i think bears repeating is the degree of shock that i am getting from the harris campaign. this is a candidate at a campaign that from the very beginning they billed themselves as the underdogs. up until the very end they said, we know this will be a very close race and this could come down to the margins in a number of states. i will say, everyone i talked to, there is shock at the scope of the defeat that

kamala harris saw last night, one senior advisor that i was talking to said of course we knew this is possible that she is winning the jersey by five points, this is a state that joe biden won by 16 points in 2020, we knew something bigger was at play. it is also worth talking about the fact that this is an emotional time for everyone on the campaign . these are people that worked on whether it is the biden campaign that turned into the harris campaign , really poured everything into trying to get the vice president elected . now, not only are they dealing with the emotional processing of what happened last night, but also figuring out their lives and packing up their homes that they temporarily set up in the battleground states and figuring out what is next for me in my life and my career. it happens every cycle but it is worth repeating that this is some of what they are processing right now in the big

picture and their own lives. >> the democrats clearly have a lot of serious soul-searching to do right now. where do they start? >> i think they start at the very beginning and the question about joe biden. as mj was talking about and how joe biden decided to run for reelection . the democrats i talked to say, if he had not decided we would have had a real primary, we would have been able to craft a theme that would get us somewhere and we would not have been tied to joe biden. that is the problem. she became the candidate who cannot separate herself from joe biden. when you have three quarters of the country inking it is headed in the wrong direction, that is a real problem. donald trump became the candidate of change. you always want to be the candidate of change when you are running . he became the candidate of change and she became the candidate of more of the same. know much how much she tried or how many proposals

she proposed people saw her as an extension of joe biden. as we were talking about before , i was talking to one source who called this a rolling realignment. if you look at the major shift and at the way the parties are defined, the populist party is the republican party him at the party of the elites are the democrats. when the margins are small in a state like new jersey, you have to look at that and say what is going on . this is not about race, it is about education and the way people have been feeling about the way they have been treated by government and they do not trust government anymore and kamala harris was government. >> good point, jersey is historically a democratic state, as we all know. manu , i know you are getting the reporting about florida senator rick scott and how he is positioning himself . >> this is the next election that will happen next week.

republicans have a huge decision in the united states senate, who will be the next senate majority leader ? this is the person who will decide what bills come to the floor and what will not come to the floor and had to position themselves working with or maybe sometimes breaking with the incoming president. there are three candidates one is the person on your screen, florida senator rick scott who did win a second term last night in florida. he is telling his colleagues that he will be a trump candidate, someone who can align himself with donald trump , he will push along the trump agenda. he is seen as a longshot candidate, he is up against senator john soon who is the current republican whip and senator john corbin who is running the gop campaign committee. both of them are assumed as favorites for it this is unclear how senators will ultimately come down. here is the other big question, what will trump do x we know that

corbin and assume will try to bolster the relationship. he backed tim scott for the presidency, how does trump react, this he tipped the scales and do they listen to him? this position is so huge they will have to find the future of the party as a public is a looking at a 52-48 senate, that could grow to 54-46. >> i suspect senators will listen to him. >> some of them don't. with an election you don't know. >> out they want him to stay out of it >> some of them do. >> and upon decision. everybody standby. i want to get back to erin burnett who has reaction from a harris surrogate. >> let's find out. i was the crucial surrogate, the state of michigan was, donald trump is leading kamala harris by more than 90,000 votes in what was supposed to be the blue wall state of michigan. just to be clear we have not formally made the call yet. there is a tight

senate race playing out in michigan as manu explained, with us now is a democratic congresswoman single. we have spoken several times over the past recent days, there has to be a part of you who knew this was possible. the last time we spoke you said you were nauseous the optimistic and that was after going across the state. now you know what you know and obviously we have not made a former call, what are you thinking about what happened in michigan? >> i am not surprised . like many others are . the fact of the matter is i continue to tell all of you for months that this state was tight and it was going to be close. it may be a little bigger than i thought it was going to be him up but i knew what it was coming down to. it is not unexpected for me. i am going to be very long

blunt , as democrats we have to do soul-searching. we are getting the message from people that we are not hearing them. i hope we take the time to do the soul-searching we have to do. >> i think a lot of people have to appreciate your honesty and your bluntness. can i ask you about a couple of those groups. first, let's talk about women , we are two women having this conversation. harris did worse with women than biden did with women and hillary clinton did with women . that is something, maybe you saw it , i don't know anybody who saw that i don't know anyone in the trump campaign who saw that. how do you explain that? >> in michigan we had a pallet or postal two years ago , it was not the first and for front issue, but it was two years ago on the pallet. you know me, i talked to everybody , that's how i get a gut. i went into

the eye doctor on monday morning and i saw mid-50s african american woman and i said have you voted? she said no and i said you have a plan and she said no. i have not decided who to vote for. it does not surprise me. people listening to real people and talking to them about what the issues are, the economy was a big issue. look, i don't think tax cuts is the way to solve it, but we have to respect the integrity of the electoral system and now we will have to work with a new president for the next four years and learn what we were not hearing and why we lost. >> that is humility, i also think it is important for people to hear you will work with them . this is how this country works and i know it cannot be easy for some to hear and maybe even to say, but it is important. can i ask you something else? you and i spoke

a couple of times in recent days and both times you talked about jill stein and how significant it was. in one interview i knew coming in you wanted to bring it up because you were concerned you wanted to send the message to the arab-american community, particularly in dearborn that voting for jill stein was a vote for donald trump, of course who is very clear israel supporter. the numbers for dearborn come in, trump wins by 42%, harris at 36, jill stein got 18% of the vote in dearborn michigan, 18%, this is not two or three , it is 18% . what do you think about that? >> i think the community is trying to send a message. i want to say to you, what is going on in the mid east is tearing people apart and it is particularly hard in michigan. people are raw and hurting on both sides and quite frankly i

get killed by both sides i get protested, i have threats , but i listen and i talked to them. a lot of people are unwilling to put themselves out there and listen and understand what the hurt is and what they are saying. quite frankly i think fear of people on all sides being willing to talk to them is what resulted in jill stein getting support. people are angry , they have lost family members, by the way, both sides, here in michigan i feel like the war in the mid east has come to michigan. even people inside the democratic party are at each other's throats. it is not good. >> when you talk about looking at how you have to work across the aisle, you could be looking at a republican white house, we knew that, republican senate and we know that and it could be a republican house as well. how do you navigate within that as what you say is a pragmatic, democratic elected congressperson? how do you deal

, when they have a full suite ? >> i have relationships on the other side of the aisle. i am always going to stand up what i believe and what i think something is wrong i will be respectful and tough and intent. i will also say, i agree with donald trump that we need to redo, that's what i thought it he wanted to do. bob hauser i have worked with a lot and i think he's a smart man and he will be a part of the administration. there are some things that i support that he does and we have to do that. if you disagree i will stand up strong. what i really want is all of the ugliness, the threats, the violence, the pitting us against each other to please stop. we are strong in this country of united states of america and my biggest problem with the former president , about to be

president again is the way he puts all of us against each other at times with his rhetoric if i was to ask or pray for anything it is that we all dial it down , find ways to disagree in a civil manner and stop this bitterness that is going across the country. >> congresswoman dingell, i appreciate your time and thoughts to thank you for joining me on this postelection morning. the saying that it's the economy stupid rings true once again. we saw in the exit polls and now across the board. we are going to go on a deep dive on what it means as you continue to watch our special coverage of election day in america continued. wolf and i will be right back.

we are back with our special coverage, donald trump back in power, elected the 47 president of the united states. it's good to phil mattingly at the magic wall. how did the president elect make this a truly historic comeback? >> it is clear the former president over performed just about everywhere he needed to. i want to dig a little deeper

here, this was the blue wall the former president shattered it in 2016 on his way to his first presidency, joe biden won it back in 2020, a third might be on the way, what is important here with the blue wall is not just that trump was able to cut into the suburban margins or urban margins, it starts here. what you saw on the campaign trail over the course of the last several months come up what you're looking at is the darker the county, the darker the shade of the county that tells you where people are falling behind when it comes to keeping up with the increase in the cost of living. if you look at the entire national map, what is the dark estate overall? all the counties together, the state of pennsylvania, the critical linchpin state of the blue wall, also number of counties in michigan and wisconsin. this is the area where despite the positive numbers of the biden administration people were failing to keep up with the cost of living. pay attention to the darkest counties here in

pennsylvania. here is centre county, right here is erie county and right here is monroe county , north hampton is below it as well. those are by far the counties that fell the furthest behind when it came to cost-of-living match that up with where donald trump flipped counties over the course of the last 24 hours. we start with erie, this was a county in 2020 joe biden was able to take back from donald trump, winning narrowly but nonetheless, 2024 , donald trump took it back. what about centre county, this place in 2020 joe biden won by nearly 5 points. 2024 donald trump flipped it to the republican column. what about over here in monroe county, this was a place in 2020 joe biden won rather handily . what happened in 2024 ? donald trump flipped it to the republican column. what is the through line of all three of these counties? all three of these

counties were used on the darker shades underscoring the most difficult time , the voters in these counties had with keeping up with the cost-of-living. it is something we saw repeatedly throughout the course of the results coming in with pennsylvania. it was not just one particular issue or ground game or younger voters, the number one issue that people were facing is the economy and pennsylvania got hit particular a hard even as the rest of the country recovered from the covid and pandemic world. >> so you're saying the economy is stupid? >> a guy you know coined that term and i think he is spot on. >> let's get back to erin . >> obviously donald trump did not just win the presidency , this is one day, this is how markets go , net worth on paper became $1 billion richer. at social media site dj t truth social come at this is not indicative of the actual value of a company just a reflection

of him surged at the opening bell at wall street this morning, the dow is up over 1300 points, that has nothing to do with truth social that is just the rally because they think donald trump will be good. let's get to harry enten. coming out last night the first exit polls him at the economy came out on top and democracy second. a few places that was reversed , but it was economy on top and democracy second that is when you had a feeling this might be going differently. it was very clear in those polls from the beginning . >> i don't understand how anyone can expect kamala harris to win when 32% of the voters last night said the condition of the national economy was excellent or good. 67%, two thirds of voters said not good or poor. how did those voters go? not surprisingly they went against the incumbent party. look at the margin that we see donald trump held off amongst those who said the economy was

not good, that is a 40 point margin. no way kamala harris could win with these numbers. how about latino voters, we spoke about them last hour. let's talk about latino's overall. what did they say the most important issue was? number one, the economy. number one , the economy. of this 41% who said the economy was the top issue, how did they vote? this gives it away. look at this, a 33 point edge for donald trump. in the exit polls, donald trump kept kamala harris's margin down to eight points. i went back through exit polls since 1972 looking at the latino vote, donald trump did better for republican nominee for president than any republican nominee for president dating all the way back since 1972 and the big reason why when you look at the exit polls it was there i say, repeat the phrase, it was the economy, stupid really it was inflation, stupid.

>> it was. you saw it across the board. they give very much. it is interesting when democrats saw the economy their argument was we hear you, we feel the pain, prices are not going up as much as they were, inflation is abating, we have a housing plan and they tried to address it and it fell on deaf ears. 66% of some supporter said the economy was the biggest issue and only one third of harrison voters saw that. did the harris team not see the full picture ? >> i think they did , and i think she did a better job than president biden has done on acknowledging the pain and trying to speak to the pain in terms of if you look at the policy she put out, she was directly trying to address price of groceries, housing costs, very specific parts of the economy where there are pain points , but it was not

enough. i will also say that a female candidate running for executive office 10 to face resistance to the belief that they will handle the economy . for some reason, whether we like it or not we tend to think men are better on the economy and on security. i am not saying that is why she lost on the issue , just a couple of things that were baked in. let's be honest, she also needed to have distance herself a little more from biden . i think that , had she been able to do that more effectively, that might have opened more ears to her economic message. >> when you talk anecdotally, just thinking about various men who happen to be hispanic that i spoke to over the last year, all chump voters, all economic , anecdote is anecdote, here we are with the numbers coming in

and the exit polls with hispanic males it was very overwhelming. yet , there was a concern, i will not say it was immediate but there was a concern and the trump campaign that the comment said about garbage at the madison square rally was going to cause the damage to the hispanic vote. that was a concern everywhere. yet , we simply did not see it. it was a pretty overwhelming number here for latino men. >> listen, just going back to what karen says, i agree with what karen says, molly harris was dealt this card with harry showing the right track ron check economy. you have to run as a party candidate she had to run as part of the party but at the same time she had to distance herself from that party. she was like okay i inherited the biden team but if i want to chart a different course i have to throw all of these people under the bus. it

is a tough spot to start from for her. when she went on the view that was kind of the death -- >> when they asked what would you do differently? >> she should have said with all due respect i could have done this or done that and that was a pivotal moment, it was clipped and packaged and ran hundreds of times over a. to your point about what do hispanic working-class families in general , they saw the ad and they were like , the country is going on the wrong track, she is not going to change anything. we are not going to keep her mpower. by feeling tethered to that previous administration and the party, if she had more freedom to go differently , i think the race may have gone differently. >> she only had 107 days to do it and it is really hard. we had a primary in 2022 or 2023 , she would have had a year to slowly start to walk herself away. doing it in 107 days ,

there was a risk reward calculation that the campaign made . karen and i have had conversations about this. if she did it on day one the people would call her disloyal . it was a double edged sword. i think, the reason why, the campaign will have to say this, i think the reason why they did not distance themselves is because they were looking at 2022. we were on these panels and some of the same numbers of dissatisfaction about joe biden's approval weighed rating -- >> and the blue wave. >> that's right, they were looking at that as an indicator that they can move it into 2024. >> i know history will be written and there are so many things we don't know. one thing that you try to say if this is a realignment or temporary think one of the most speedy shifts in history will be the hispanic vote. can i ask about stark county, texas? the

of hispanic county 97% of the people, that has not voted republican since 1892. chump won 57 to 41 . >> that is kind of a wake-up call. >> in 2016 he lost that by 60 points. he won by 60 this time around. that is a 76 point swing . that is huge. i think that gets to some of the points we are talking about. hispanic vote, the way democrats , and to be fair a lot of republicans talk about latinos like if it is this monolithic identity there are a lot of interethnic differences, a lot of hispanics in this country were not freaked out by the immigration talk or the deportation talk because their families have been here for four generations. what has happened with the hispanic vote, they vote to

support a democrat not because there is some congenital thing about being hispanic, they were disproportionately poor. as they move up the social economic ladder they become indistinguishable from the median latter. those culture trends , there working-class men they will grab hispanics in much the way they would grab white men. also a chunk of african american men. >> i sometimes get nervous talking about communities when they are not represented on the panel. i want to acknowledge that there is no latino, to my knowledge, on this panel. we say that about black people that we are not a monolith and we say that about latinos. i do think the origin story of those two communities is distinctly different. one of the reasons why i think the black voters have remained loyal to the democratic party is because of the distinct difference to the origin story. and how they feel

like they interact with both parties. when we see, again, i think folks overestimated what black men were going to support donald trump. >> she kept biden's level. >> she did it >> not a pennsylvania. >> on the national average . when you look at the latino population, they truly are not a monolith , they speak different dialects. >> culture. >> the messaging. it was not just in this campaign, this has been about a eight year messaging game that the conservatives have been working in those communities. much of the conversation is disinformation about socialism and whatnot, but some of it is culturally relevant. >> it's interesting they say they lose it's a one-party country, you certainly did not foresee the coalition that accomplished that. >> were quickly on hispanic,

overwhelmingly catholic and fairly religious. those issues are pretty big . >> don't go anywhere we will be back. our special coverage continues.

welcome back to cnn's continuing coverage. donald trump returns to power, voters across the country making their voices heard. the new president-elect of the united states got a very decisive victory over kamala harris and propelling it back to the white house as the 47th president of the united states. we have a key race alert for you right now. let's take a look at some important states. let's put them up on the screen. here we go, in michigan right now, they have 15 electoral votes, donald trump is ahead by almost 83,000 votes, 99% of the vote is in, 49.8% to 48% for kamala harris. he is up by more than 82,000 votes in michigan. in arizona, the 11 electoral votes, 63% of

the estimated vote is in, chump is ahead 51.9% to 7.2%. chump has the lead of more than 106,000 votes over kamala harris in arizona. in nevada right now, six electoral votes, 88% of the estimated vote is in, trump maintains a leader 51.5% to kamala harris 46.8%. the lead is about 59,000 votes a little more than 59,000 votes over kamala harris we are watching that very closely. let's turn to the balance of power in the u.s. congress. republicans as you know by now have flipped the u.s. senate while control of the house of representatives still pretty much up for grabs. cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju is following all of this . tell us the latest. >> we are looking at the margin how big of a republican majority they will have in the

united states senate. each seat is so significant. the additional state makes it harder for the minority party to get back into the majority. election cycles make it easy to pass agenda and easy to confirm nominees including the supreme court. right now republicans have 52-42 majority in the senate , they picked up three less light in red states, west virginia, ohio, montana and they are now currently leading in two democratic seats, there are three other democratic seats and purple states and democrats have the lead and those but in other purple states republicans are now leading. let's look at those states that we can drill down further. nevada, this is a big surprise. coming into this race the democratic incumbent had a comfortable lead according to the public polling. right now a army veteran is ahead by 1190 votes , the narrowest of

margins. i have talked to both sides and they expect this to come down to the wire. 88% are reported in this race, republicans could pick that up , maybe the democrats can't we will see what happens. in pennsylvania, a three-time term incumbent democratic senator, bob casey, longtime fixture a pennsylvania politics is losing by 48,469 votes to republican businessmen david mccormick. with 97% of the vote in , republicans are feeling very confident they could have a 53-47 majority in the senate. let's look at the united states house. the democrats need to pick up four seats to be back in power . right now republicans have picked up five. democratic picked up two. they need 218 to be in the majority, they are 49 states that we have not called. the battleground is so narrow in the u.s. house. not that many truly are at play. at that

moment democrats are leading in five districts, perhaps there confident on some. this is a problem for democrats, republicans are leading and three democratic districts which means the past to get to the net of four seats even more difficult. what we will be looking closely at in the house districts in new york at the suburbs of new york as well as california, some in arizona , some that have not been called yet , but at the moment democrats acknowledged they really have to run the table to get back to the majority in the house republicans are growing confident that they will have the majority, the speaker of the house putting out a statement saying that. even if they do have a majority it will be a razor thin majority for the gop if they managed to hold on. >> a lot at stake in the balance of power. manu raju, thank you. >> global leaders are jockeying for meetings with donald trump. stay with cnn as a special coverage continues.

donald trump sweeping victory over kamala harris

carries massive implications domestically and around the world. a major question, how will this impact the wars in ukraine and the middle east? how are leaders in those regions reacting to trump's reelection? i am joined by cnn's chief international security correspondent and chief global affairs correspondent . matthew, let me start with you . the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu , as we now know was quick to congratulate his friend donald trump on the victory. you have new reporting that the two have actually spoken on the phone. what can you tell us. >> reporter: in the minutes after donald trump made his declaration of victory speech , benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, soda posted a message on x my formally known as twitter, basically saying this is history's greatest comeback and congratulating in a gushing way , donald trump on

this election victory. that was followed up with a phone call, there has been a readout of that the past few minutes. the prime minister of israel congratulate trump on his election victory and the two agreed to work together for israel's security. that is key because in the course of the past year or so there has been a great deal of tension between the israeli government and the biden administration, figures in israel thinking that biden and his vice president kamala harris has been holding back israel's military response after the october 7th attacks. in contrast, the presidency of donald trump the first term is remembered fondly as a time when there were several pro israel moves. trump moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem . he acknowledged accepted sovereignty of israel of what they captured from syria in 1967 and a paved the way for

normal relations between israel and several arab states as well as taking a harder line against iran . israel is anticipating and hoping, and expecting that there will be much more of that early on in a trump presidency. that is why there is so much enthusiasm here from benjamin netanyahu and from other israeli officials, indeed from other israeli as well opinion polls suggested overwhelming support in israel for a trump presidency and that is what they have got. >> a lot of the israeli's were pleased trump was so very much involved in what was called the abraham accord. israel's developing permanent relations with the united arab emirates, bahrain, morocco and other countries that were seen as a huge development for israel. i want to go to nick. nic , what is the impression of this very decisive win by trump will impact the war in ukraine? it is getting a little bit more

serious right now as thousands of north korean troops , we understand, have joined a russian fight against ukraine . >> secretary of state anthony blinken suggested potentially 8000 north korean troops in the region might get into combat in the days ahead and there are suggestions that might be occurring right now. it is one element of bad news for ukraine across the front lines. some suggest they lost the most the mount of ground in october. pretty much the most since the start of the war. across the east russia advancing in strategic ways. likely very bad news even before donald trump swept into victory like we saw last night. trump has been very clear that he thinks he can and the war in 24 hours, he has not said how. he referred to resident volodomyr zelenskyy as an external salesman who seems to get hundred billion dollars each time he goes to congress, i paraphrase that. and he has

expects skepticism of the ranks around him of the need to continue to fund ukraine's defense russia's invasion , hundreds of millions of dollars every week coming from the biden administration. i think we have seen today from zelinski's team a bid to reach out to the part of donald trump, volodomyr zelenskyy saying on a tweet saying the trump policy a piece through strength is something that could bring peace closer. i think trying to help thompson desire to be seen as authoritative leader, someone who can set u.s. policy is not at the same time going to want to appear to push ukraine toward ceding territory and negotiating settlements at the table. bear in mind, wolf, donald trump took pains to not upset, for reasons no one has understood, vladimir putin. i think it is pretty clear with

his relationship to volodomyr zelenskyy, a man in his first term that telephone transcripts so he tried to pressure the relationship to the biden family. it will be brought. zelenskyy said they had a good meeting in september and victory plan was something they discussed. we are in a very perilous time, even before trump's victory. russia is on the march, strategically gaining north korean troops to potentially play with and now somebody in the white house, in a matter of months, who is likely to slow down, if not entirely stop the aid that has been so vital to ukraine to defend itself. i think we're looking for an external a few months ahead and that long-running conflict. >> you make a good point and we are waiting to see who trump names a secretary of state the secretary of defense national security divisor advisor,

critical security positions. we will see who he picks for these important positions. thank you . stay with cnn , aids from the harris campaign say they are in a state of shock as donald trump is now the president-elect of the united states. are special coverage , election day in america continues is back after the short break.